Generator Rant

Quiet

Running a genny all night is a bit grim as said, but I thought the modern ones were fairly quiet ? A bloke gave his a run in the next bay and it was very quiet......but maybe not in the dead of night !! Might have to get one as wifey not letting go of her 2200w hairdryer !! Maja
 
maja07 said:
Running a genny all night is a bit grim as said, but I thought the modern ones were fairly quiet ? A bloke gave his a run in the next bay and it was very quiet......but maybe not in the dead of night !! Might have to get one as wifey not letting go of her 2200w hairdryer !! Maja
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Leave the Genny wife and hairdryer at home silence all round :lol-049:
I didn’t write this by the way
 
AndyR said:
What twaddle, most of us are driving around in 2 plus litre diesel motorhomes, I don't see any threads bemoaning the fact that you can't buy electric/hybrid ones yet!

If you choose to use solar power that's fine, but please don't try and guilt the rest of us into doing so. You chose solar panels, I chose a generator, my reasons made perfect sense to me as yours no doubt did to you.

Motorhoming is like any other pastime, full of people you like and get on well with and equally full of people that you don't! I can't stand loud music when I'm parked up or people who come over and tell me what to do and why just because they also have a motorhome, but I accept it as part of the variety of life with a smile on my face, or move elsewhere.

I you really can't tolerate a little noise, stay on an adults only, dog free campsite with hookup, or choose a pastime that isn't based on diesel engines and where generators aren't widely used.
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We might run diesel motorhomes but people tend to switch the engine off when they are parked up, not leave them running all night
 
I haven't got totally paranoid about generators, I was already.
 
***** said:
I think some people have got totally paranoid about generators.
My view as a geny user is that there is nothing wrong with a geny if used appropriately, to give a little battery charge or a quick busts for a microwave and not run to power a TV in the evening..
They are much better than running the engine for similar reasons.
I expect my view will not be similar to quite a few as lately there have been many threads moaning about genies!
There are worse things, dogs , kids can come to mind, if not controlled!
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If everyone using a generator chose to coordinate their time of usage then
fair enough, but in reality the so called "quick" burst of battery charging rarely
coincides with someone else's few minutes of microwaving, it doesn't take long
before the cumulative affect with time pisses everyone else off.
As for the "generators being an individuals free choice" post, just as solar panels may be, but with the not to be overlooked vital difference being, that solar panels are silent.
 
We parked up at about 11am and the genny was running quite loudly. It was an external one.
It continued running all day until at least 8 pm, revving up louder as it was called upon to do work.
This was an unmade road within 50 yards of houses.

Very soon there will no doubt be a residents petition to ban motorhomes here if these guys continue their antics......especially the midnight screaming.
 
Hairdryer

So, if I ran a gennie for 10 minutes in the morning while her indoors does her hair is that exceptable LOL !! Maja
 
At the farm we are the last house on mains, next house up road uses a generator, it was replaced about 10 years ago, what puzzles me, why have a noisy one? Doesn't trouble us much as I only really hear it much when walking the dogs, but it's a clattery old thing that must be very noisy for them.
 
You don’t get people complaining of generators when they have flat batteries and you offer to let them connect their hook up cable to your generator.

John.
 
colinmd said:
At the farm we are the last house on mains, next house up road uses a generator, it was replaced about 10 years ago, what puzzles me, why have a noisy one? Doesn't trouble us much as I only really hear it much when walking the dogs, but it's a clattery old thing that must be very noisy for them.
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I used to have a 1930's era Generator running the Farm cottage. As it was water cooled it was fairly quiet at its 650 RPM but you could see the glass in the windows vibrating in time with it. :p
 
Neckender said:
You don’t get people complaining of generators when they have flat batteries and you offer to let them connect their hook up cable to your generator.

John.
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That's different an exception, a minor emergency issue one might say. Even so if tried too often those not the actual recipients of the goodwill gesture and in earshot might have something to complain about!
 
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Chainsaw Charlie said:
Solar panels are also useless from October to April ?
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A problem easily, (well for some) resolved, go to Spain/Portugal/Greece or similar!
But for those insistent on remaining in UK and not able to survive without mains electricity there is an answer, and that is to patronise establishments providing consistent mains powered electricity, ie campsites.
Plenty of UK winter campers match their electrical needs with their 12v electrical capacity without resorting to generators, they move on as required, be it 3 or 4 days and recharge, or book in to a site every so often, it's the price they willingly pay (literally) in order to pursue their hobby.
 
Spent two nights on a site with eberspacher running pretty much none stop and waeco compressor cool box running as well as lighting and watching TV etc....and no hook up
Our 3 x 100ah leisure batteries were down to about 60% and 12.4 volts according to the Bm2...
Drove from Muker (Yorkshire Dales national park) over to Nenthead in Cumbria (about 60 miles) and batteries were showing 100% and 12.6 after engine turned off for an hour or so....
Obviously the solar panels are doing 9 tenths of cock all leaving the VSR to do all the work.

We seem to have managed without a generator by matching our power reserves to our needs AND the fact we tend to move around a fair bit...
I can't think of anything worse than the drone of a (even 'silent') generator in the background let alone it upsetting other folks.....

Sadly though the generator question is always going to be a contentious one until someone invents a TRULY silent one.
 
connect the bicycle to the genny and youll keep yerself warm whilst the mrs dries her hair or cooks yer tea.


there again i always think a 6 cylinder diesel sounds rather soothing
 
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