Camping in the Cold--Some AH Figures
So camping off grid for four days--arrive Monday go home Friday temps : Night 0C/32F , Day 7C/44F-ish (Annual Rathtrevor provincial park late January episode to start the year off) Park gen hours 9-1...
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pnichols wrote:
BF - the last time I checked those Honda 3000is were expensive (but quiet).
I shouldn't bring up this taboo subject but here goes ... couldn't you have just idled your truck engine to good-enough charge your batteries? Unless it's a diesel, it probably idles as quiet as the big Honda, anyway.
We got this gen in early 2003, so 14 years still going strong makes it come out better in $/yr :)
No, the noise is ok, and no issues with long time idle for the gasser, but the amps are not ok. I have tested for that using fat jumpers and also with inverter on truck battery with inverter running chargers. Best I got was about 50 amps. As seen above, I need more like 150 amps to do a 50-90 in two hours in this situation.
You might get away with running the truck outside of park gen hours though.
