stickbowjoe wrote:
I just wonder...
If you "solar snobs" as you call yourself, wouldn't be dollars, trouble, and worry ahead if you just bought a Honda 2k generator, a 6 gallon gas can, and went camping, instead of the endless plotting, planning, configuring, reconfiguring, tilting, not tilting, wind-worrying, upgrading, monitoring, and such.
Don't claim to know. But I do wonder.
To each his own. On 2nd thought, i reckon you enjoy it.
Never mind. Carry on. :)
Joe
You are absolutely correct. Of course depending on the tone you convey this.
I actually have 2 generators, a Honda and an Onan. As there are times when the sun don’t shine’, for days.
When someone talks to me, about getting solar, I advise them that it would be cheaper to go with a generator. Hands down.
But, some go the solar route, for their own reasons, or just have a big check book for such things. The easiest thing to do is increase your battery bank, charge well before you leave home, moderate your power usages, while gone, and charge up when you get home. As most people are just going out for a weekend or a few days.
Some of us use our TCs for extended periods of time, as I do, and a generator running every day is just, well, beating your head against the wall. Let alone expensive, noisy and then I would need to go into town and get additional fuel. Who wants to run their generator 2 to 3 hours a day and arrange their daily life around running a generator? Solar works for me, as it does for some others. But in the big picture, running a generator is just as good an alternative in the short run, and in most cases, less expensive.
Everyone has different uses and to determine other’s uses and demands by one’s own uses, is well short sighted. It would be a very boring world where everyone drives the same type of truck, uses the same type of Truck Camper and eats the same type of food.
Me, I would miss my Burritos and Salmon dinners out under the stars, away from Campgrounds and City Lights, if my life were to be like everyone else’s.
One of the nice things about this forum, we get to know each other’s proclivities, when you are around a bit, or just ask. This information often carries weight with the information that is being shared. Such as going to someone with an Eagle Cap Truck Camper, when an issue it specific to that type of camper. Jfet would be my go to person, when a question comes up about; “Why doesn’t someone just build their own Truck Camper?”
b
