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should generators be allowed everywhere including non powered sites [30 vote(s)]

absolutely, I must have my hair dryer
3.3%
no bloody way somebody should blow generators up
3.3%
yes but only during the hours of 10 am and 3pm
20.0%
if I see a generator and I find it's owner I'll moider the mug
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there is a time and a place for generators and if it doesnt bother me then it is fine
23.3%
I use my generator when and where I wish and I will put it right next to your van to keep the noise away from my camp as well
3.3%
anybody seen my car keys
3.3%
I thought they had a keg in here, oh well se ya
0.0%
a little one is okay and used sensibly
33.3%
my vibrator wont work without power??
0.0%
I'm only here to get away from the missus, dont tell her will you!!
10.0%
dave06


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should gennys be used and if yes why and where and when!

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reza


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We use ours    but are mindful of other people around          the times i have used it  free camping there hasnt been anyone else around     plus ours is pretty quiet   Honda EU30 is

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We carry a Honda e2 but have rarely used it.  We are pretty well set up with solar (240w on the roof) which provides us with all the power we need 99% of the time.

We do run it if we need the air/con in a free camp but then most other campers are using theirs too.

I think to use it on an unpowered park site would be rather rude unless you locked it inside your car maybe. cry I am sure tent users next to you would take a dim view of the noise.

We never need ours to charge batteries but if someone did need it for that then between the hours of daylight would not worry me.

I can really handle the steady hum of a genny anytime, it is the wizz-bang camper doors in the middle of the night that 'P' me off.

Cheers Neil

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hey you leave my doors out of it!! :) but yeah they can be noisy

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colsa


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We use ours only when camping put it on for a couple of hours a day to keep the fridge cold and i'm on a vpap machine at night so i have to have it on but we always park well away from other campers,  i'd say yes but with consideration to others.

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colsa if you dont mind me asking what is a vpap machine I know what a cpap is but have never heard of a vpap!

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Di-n-Gary


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I think a Honda i20 or similar are fine through the day is fine and into the first hour or two after dark maybe but after that it can test a friendship.

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actually the rsponses have surprised me, i would have though that a couple would be up in arms about gennys

it seems we are fairly tolerative group

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Mate,tolerance comes with listening and learning.We are doing both on our Forum.Cheers.Ibbo.

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We use a honda 2 when I have to top up batteries ,mainly up north when fishing & the freezer is working hard .
The solar works well most of the time .
We are bush camped when doing this, others all do the same .

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winkwink I can answer that a vpap machine is a cpap machine when you accidently hit the v which is next to the c on the keyboard - in other words a typo

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Hi Justcruisin, I find I'm a more tolerant and happy person when the freezer is working hard whilst camped in the gulf or N. T. The honda and solar during the day should keep you going, shame about the solar at night, I can never get mine to work

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I keep rubbing the bottle but no genie yet,I know what some crude smarty beaky Bugger would say...............no Iam not going to change anything.Approaching "Smutty".LOL.Cheers.Ibbo.

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Ok.......I'm negitive.........LOL.........just remember you cant use a generator on a fire ban day..

the noise doesnt bother me if used sensiblely.....hell ACons.make more noise


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ah v instead of c it all becomes clear, had me buggered!

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colsa


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Hi dave sorry it took so long to get back to you,  cpap is controlled air pressure meaning the air goes into you  continually, vpap is when i breath out the machine stops and when i breathe in the machine forces the air into me, sounds all techo but  hey as long as i wake in the morning who cares.

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Di-n-Gary wrote:

Hi Justcruisin, I find I'm a more tolerant and happy person when the freezer is working hard whilst camped in the gulf or N. T. The honda and solar during the day should keep you going, shame about the solar at night, I can never get mine to work


They make solar powered torches so it must work .lol

 



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