SoundGuy wrote:
We normally camp on electric sites and based on that alone a simple G24 sitting on the tongue would serve the purpose. However, because we lose campsite power for one reason or another at least 2 or 3 times each season I installed a 1000w PSW inverter in the front pass through storage compartment so we can still use a couple of 120 vac fans and make coffee & toast the same way we always do.
pnichols wrote:
I clipped the above portion out of your long post above to ask a question: When electric sites at a campground lose power - aren't campers who need to continue with 120V AC power and until the campground power is restored - allowed to use their generators if they have them?
I would think that would be accepted and expected by the campground managers and residents regardless of the temporary noise (and fumes). :h
For sure, but here in the Ontario provincial parks genset use just doesn't seem to be all that common - thankfully. :B On this trip illustrated below we were camping over the weekend of Oct 17, 2015 when daytime temps should have been in the high 50s / low 60s F with bright blue skies. Ha - a freak storm blew in from Lake Huron and buried the area with a foot of snow, power went out late Friday night and wasn't restored for 36 hrs. At the time I owned my second Honda EU2000i but where was it? - back in my workshop 'cause I got tired of dragging it around with us all the time but never using it. :R Now that I think about it I don't recall hearing any gensets running on that trip. I had the inverter installed by this time so was able to use the toaster and coffee maker anyway.
I also built a quiet box for my EU2000i that really dealt with the noise issue quite well but eventually I decided a genset for our purposes was just more trouble than it was worth so I sold it and now just use the inverter to get us through those few instances each season when we may lose shower power. Ideally I
would install 2 G31 AGMs but the cost is hard to justify when we only camp without shore power just a few times each season.
