Almot wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Not to mention people with robes and turbans.
It's a 100 dollar battery versus a five hundred dollar generator and four hundred dollars in fuel. Yes, I count tires engines and the whole schmear needed to fetch more fuel.
Have figured this out from the day one. Even though my batteries are $200 each. Not going to make "turbans" happy, no soup for them ;). No generator. Would've been nice to get rid of propane fridge and stop making gentes from "Gas de La Paz" happy as well.
Bandwagon. Put me down in this camp also. Batteries are pennies per camping day and can handle a lot more power than we think... so long as we're regulating voltage.
Silence... on the other hand... is golden!
Idling with no load is infinitely inefficient. 70W is probably not much better.