Generator advice
I'm looking at buying a generator. 95% of what I need it for is charging house battery while dry camping. The other 5% is to run the microwave for hot pockets and pizza for the kids. I borrowed a 2...
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Having camped in SE Asia for 13 months in my youth, often digging a nice personal safe space to sleep in at night. Heating my canned meals and coffee with heat tabs, sometimes heating the coffee water with C4. Going up to a month without a warm shower while out hiking the countryside. I have no desire to recreate the experience.
I live in SW Fl, the hurricane zone and consider the Toyota, not only a luxury treat but an escape pod, which it was used for during Hurricane Irma. I was an evacuee/vacationer during that period. Had the house been destroyed I would have used it as a base of operations during rebuilding or relocating.
And yes I do question my use of a 25 year old vehicle for emergency use : )
I have made concessions on the genset. I am doing the best I can to run the Toy with a Honda 2000. I use an inexpensive low powered microwave. Does it really make much of a difference if the happy meal takes 54 seconds to heat instead of the 32 seconds it does in the over the stove $500 unit at home? I also have to turn off the AC when using the microwave. The AC goes off for 54 seconds, honest I can live with that.
I have installed an 8000 btu window AC in my Toy which the Honda runs at any altitude or temperature, even worked in death valley!
I live in SW Fl, the hurricane zone and consider the Toyota, not only a luxury treat but an escape pod, which it was used for during Hurricane Irma. I was an evacuee/vacationer during that period. Had the house been destroyed I would have used it as a base of operations during rebuilding or relocating.
And yes I do question my use of a 25 year old vehicle for emergency use : )
I have made concessions on the genset. I am doing the best I can to run the Toy with a Honda 2000. I use an inexpensive low powered microwave. Does it really make much of a difference if the happy meal takes 54 seconds to heat instead of the 32 seconds it does in the over the stove $500 unit at home? I also have to turn off the AC when using the microwave. The AC goes off for 54 seconds, honest I can live with that.
I have installed an 8000 btu window AC in my Toy which the Honda runs at any altitude or temperature, even worked in death valley!
