12v issue and the use of external portable generator or battery pack

[SquirrellCook]

Better to have and not need . Than need and not have. I for got ladder and lost 5 hours. Take what you want as time is precious. Just park in the down wind corner. With your rented genny.


Your 12 volt issues wont be fixed tho. I tend to buy / spend on the things that fix the problem . Not delay it !

To me its new nackered batteries. I'd start with them and then earths wires, last thing consumer unit .you have a few days take them out and put them on charge now .
My van just used 150amps in four days last weekend but I have cheap solar panels but dear blue boxes.

I can use 54Ahr a night with the heating on and a bit of book reading.

 

[trevskoda]

I can use 54Ahr a night with the heating on and a bit of book reading.

Electric books, what next.

 

[Geek]

I haven’t noticed much difference in noise between running petrol to lpg on the same generator Ken, only looked at one model though. Only advantage to me was not having to carry petrol. Fair premium on lpg as well and unless done properly it wears the valves in the head (so a vary experienced lpg fitter told me anyway (John at Autogas 2000))

LPG is about half the price of petrol. This valve wear issue depends on the quality of the metal they're made of. I have never heard of premature valve failure on an LPG generator.

 

[Geek]

I can use 54Ahr a night with the heating on and a bit of book reading.

Assuming that a night is 10 hours long, that's 5.4 amps on average: 65 watts. What is using all that power? Our lights are about 6 watts in total. The heating (Truma combi) uses about 15 watts. So that's 21 in total. Why are you using over three times as much?

 

[Canalsman]

LPG is about half the price of petrol. This valve wear issue depends on the quality of the metal they're made of. I have never heard of premature valve failure on an LPG generator.

Apparently Honda generators, specifically the EU10i, can suffer from excessive piston ring wear.

I found advice online from a former Honda technician advising the use of two stroke oil at very high dilution, 1:400 if I recall correctly, to prevent this. I have been following this advice with my EU10i without any issues as a precaution.