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Hi Everyone

As a neewbie to this forum and also to Motorhome Camping I am interested if anyone can point me in the right direction as to where I can purchase a Generator to operate items in my Motorhome such as T.V, Microwave, Radio etc,etc. whilst rough camping and visiting Motorhome shows where there are no hookups, and what sort of price would I have to pay.

Many Thanks.

Makro have a smallish Genny for sale.

850 watt £42.99 plus vat.

PS Welcome to the site lol.

Post last edited on 26/02/2005 16:23:26

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Big Chris


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Gennies - nasty horrid smelly noisy things not very popular with other campers.

Couldn't you manage without the microwave & just run stuff off your 12 volt for a couple of nights? Like the rest of us do?

Welcome to UK Camp Site, Ivor, sorry to welcome you with such a negative reply to your first question but I really don't like the things, unless they are necessary for medical reasons.

Hello Ivor

Welcome to the UKCS.

Most people would say run off your 12volt for a couple of nights as they worry in case you pitch next to them.  Gennies are noisy and smelly not very neighbour friendly.

If you are out in the middle of nowhere or in a lay by etc then a Genny might help.  Watch out for the cheap little ones. The power quoted will be at high - peak revs.  The output will aslo be very noisey electrically and can cause damage to electronics such as TV battery charger etc.  Check the specs of them when buying, the cheapest may not be the best.

We had a Yanmar generator for a while until it speeded up and blew up the Tv and charger unit

We then went back to 2 batteries but now we always go on sites with hook up (as an aside)

I would think that you would need a fairly big generator to power a microwave but George will know if he sees this posting

You need to spend more money to get a generator that has electronic output control to avoid what happened to us !!

Hi everyone

Thanks for your warm welcome and also for the interesting and valued advice you all gave me.  Sorry for the delay in responding. Problem with my computer, now fixed.

Thanks to you all.

Generators

I purchased a small 600 watt geny and found it quite good and I purchased a large plastic storage box that covered the genny having drilled a hole wear the air inlet to the genny is plus exhalst outlet , it kept the rain off and made it a lot quiter, also it was used to carry the genny in whilst on the van as they can leak oil slightly, but be warned my son used a large well known make and it blow the fuses on his van , when we check it out the genny was pushing out 400 volts plus, try using hook up where you can it saves a lot of hasel

Best of luck   Woody

Forget the Microwave and it will be quite cheap.

Maybe some people are a little too sensitive, but I have never really been bothered by the small camping sort, its the large industrials that are way to noisey. if someones got a little Honda going and you are in your van I find you cant hear it.

Wild camping should be no prob.

If you want one big enough to drive a Microwave say the micro is 700 watts you will need a bigger Genny at least 1200w cont

George