Member - Roachie (SA) posted:

The term that springs to mind here is "reundancy" (whatever that means in this context?). But, my point here is that a generator has more options as to how it can be used than a simple, noisy Christie's Battery Charger.

I was on a trip to Cape York in 2004 with a couple of mates. One bloke's camper trailer decided it didn't like corrogations and needed some urgent attention, including the use of the angle grinder to cut through some bolts and also to cut some flate steel to be welded.

Out came the little 4" grinder and job was completed with the aid of some battery-powered welding. We had a couple of 3stage chargers between us too.

I have a Yamaha e10 too and it's a ripper. Much more reliable than the sun (for solar panels) on a bad day.

Solar would be nice too, but the gennie just does it all!!

I only take mine away with me on longer trips (not weekend jaunts when i know the batteries will be okay without being charged up). And, when I do use the gennie, I ensure I have the damn thing off by dusk. I also make a habit of asking anybody else in the vicinity if they have anything they'd like to run off my gennie. This sort of gets them on-side....even if they weren't too keen on having the gennie running (from about 2pm to 7pm maximum usually). I also ensure the set is placed in a spot that is likely to cause the least amount of disturbance to us or anybody else.

I can relate a funny story too. We had been on the road for several days (bush camping), when we reached Longreach and decided it would time to go to a c/van park for the night to freshen-up etc.

There were no powered sites left that weren't booked. The boss put us on an unpowered site right next to a powered site, yet to be occupied. He told us we could not run our gennies. My mate who was travelling with us, really needed the power to keep a couple of ailing batteries charged and his fridges cold. When we parked up, we found the unoccupied powered site. My mate went over to the office and asked if we could use the power until the people arrived who had booked that site; even saying he was willing to pay the difference between the powered and unpowered site.... NO!!!!

Just as aside, the people never turned up anyway and the site remained empty all night.....hahahaha....the c/van park bloke lost out there i guess (unless he got full payment before-hand).

Anyway, just the other side of this unoccupied powered site, was a huge Winnebago Motor Home with every bell and whistle you could imagine. Washing machine, and a huge air condtioner on the roof just to name 2.

The air conditioner was running all night and made enough racket that my mate was able to 'get away with' running his little Honda 1kva, hidden under the back mudflap of his 4x4 until 10pm. Nobody walking past our site could even HEAR the gennie over the noise of that blasted air conditioner. The moral of the story? 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