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Naio
Explorer II
Mar 30, 2015

How much gas does your genny use? And a charging question

After generous advice and hand-holding from folks here, I experimented with running my van engine to charge house batteries when dry camping, as I do not yet have a genny or solar. I used an MSW inve...
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dave17352
Explorer
Mar 30, 2015
My honda eu3000 will run twenty hours on 3.5 gallons of gas on eco mode which would be plenty to run a charger. That's weird that it took three times as long with the inverter unless of course its not supplying your inverter with enough power. In which case maybe that is not good for your charger.

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