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Ron3rd
Dec 23, 2014Explorer III
BFL13 wrote:
Everybody seems to say you can just fire up the Honda when you need to run the toaster or kettle. Nope! Here, the provincial parks have generator hours from 9-11am and from 6-8pm. In the winter it is dark at 6-8pm so that's out unless you like to go out there in the dark and rain. That leaves 9-11am.
So unless you sleep in, you will want to make your breakfast toast well before 9am and you will want an electric toaster instead of the bread-burning torture rack that goes on the propane stove and sets off the fire alarm, waking everybody up for miles around at 0-dark-thirty.
So it is absolutely vital that you have an inverter to run the electric toaster, and that you have enough juice in the battery bank that morning to run the thing.
X2, all the state parks in Calif have "quiet hours" and that normally coincides with when the grandkids want to watch a dvd or tv. Thus the need for the inverter. Only wish I would have done it 5 years ago.
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