Artum Snowbird wrote:
Last year I went to the neighbor and asked him why he was running his generator. He was charging a cell phone. I showed him my 75 watt inverter, and said it would charge cell phones quietly from the battery.
Yes. Level of ignorance can be amazing. Simple MSW inverter 150-170W, powerful enough to charge not just a cell phone, but a laptop, or run a small TV set, will cost $20-25 on Amazon. There is no excuse not to carry one.
If you use propane stove for all those things that you would use a microwave at home, generator will only be needed to run A/C when you need A/C (in addition to a daily hour run to top up the battery).