Nova Scotia Campers wrote:
Just back from the weekend camping trip. We did a provincial park with no electrical service. We used the 2000i the first day from about 11 AM to about 8 in the evening.
9 Hours a day???
I hope you were in an area where there was no other campers a few sites either side of you. Sorry, the 2000i is quiet..but it's not that quiet that it wouldn't eventually irritate the heck of out others, especially those in the no-hydro areas that typically expect it to be quiet.
The whole reason I bought the 2000i was for it's quiet factor, but I only run it long enough to charge my house batteries. Based on the May long weekend, that required about 3 hours a day based on fairly heavy 12v use furnace all night, lights in evening, etc as well as some use of the inverter in the morning for making coffee, powering the TV for an hour in the evening to watch the news, etc. This was with 2 6v golf cart batteries going from about a 50-60% SOC - a single 12v RV battery that most have, given a 50% discharge rate should take even less time assuming you have a good rate of charge.
Even running it for 3 hours seemed excessive to me when in a nature-centric campground environment.
