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HA HA,,,,i knew you would look hehe,,,,please carry on reading,

 we have been to the Lincon Motor Home Show this weekend, took a large fairly new, generator as their isnt any hook up, the genni ran everything fine for about 4 hours, then TOTAL BLACKOUT !!! thought we had ran out of petrol,,,,,no!!!, lost both 12v, and 240v,..... nothing!!! tried all fuses, battery, etc.,,,ended up ringing an engineer who will come out next thursday, looks like we have blown a circuit board in the power/battery charger ???, The battery is fully charged and working but thats where the power stays !!! as its a newish van it should switch over automatically, but no,,, GUTTED !!  anyhow we muddled through by torchlight, (very romantic)  hehe,  and loved the weekend at the show.

Has anyone else experienced this at all please ????

do not have a generator but believe they can have spikes that blow circuit boards in chargers and other things.

Thanks for your reply Michael, do you know we have had the same thing said to us this evening,,so much for buying a really expensive generator then !!! this has really put me off going to a no hook up place ever again,
 

welcome but i do believe you can buy a spike prevention equipment but as said only what i have read over the years no personal experience.

Quote: Originally posted by Rune Caster on 27/9/2010

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The EU20i is an expensive genny at £1255

I don't know if there are other cheaper generators with full inverters or if you can get a full inverter added to a standard generator (which would be more useful)

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This one looks good for the money

http://www.thegreenreaper.co.uk/showdetails.asp?id=2456

They do higher power versions aswell