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    Posted: 13 Oct 2013 at 6:52pm
We go to lizard lake, dry camping, San Juan,dry camping and up island to miracle beach full hook ups. We try to go different places,happy camping!!
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We just got our Rpod last August.  So far, Penticton, Parksville x2, Gordan Bay and Goldstream.    Some with hookups, some without.  Thinking that next year will be a lot of weekends in provincial parks seeing the kids are in school and daycare for most of the year.  Kind of thinking about the EU3000is now due to the db level.  Big weight, but nothing me an the wife can't handle.  Sposed to be pretty quiet..  We are definitely open to new campgrounds if you have any ideas.  We'd like to go to a different campground every trip.  You have a couple close to you that are supposed to be pretty nice.
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hi ,we are up the road from you a bit, Chemainus, we are also thinking of the honda gen.I have walked by when one was running ,very quite! It will be great for dry camping as we will not have to worry about the battery! Where do you camp?
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Doug, for you I will buy you a beer any time.

I have never run the AC all night. The tank holds all of a 5 gallon gas can, and I have run it for 10 hours with the air running. It is heavy, and I need help lifting it into the bed of my truck. It stays there when I am using it.
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So are you buying a round of beers if all podders come to WI this weekend?  Big smile

I'm curious, how much gas does yours use overnight running the A/C?
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Everyone needs to get what they want. My $300 Champion runs as long as I sleep on a tank of gas, is reasonably quiet, will run my air, nuke box and anything else in the Pod at the same time. It has not let me down yet, and I can by six of them for the price of this used set of red ones. If you are in a camp ground you can't run any of them during quiet time, and if you aren't you will never hear the gen set over the air in the pod. When I priced a pair of the red ones and cabling needed it came in around $2400. I had $2100 t0 spend on lots of other fun stuff.
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Last year at the northwest get together in Seaside, Or we went to the local Costco and bought
A 2000 watt gen set. They compared it to the Honda eu2000i Honda all the same specs. Well wrong
Every time we started our 1100 watt micro the gen would kick out,and would have to shut it off and restart not happy. The folks next to us had a Honda 2000 and he hooked it to our pod ,test and no problem. Sooo in my mind not the same, of course with Costco's return policy they gladly took it back. Will have a Honda here very soon
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Posts: 171 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Oct 2013 at 11:47am
Originally posted by Keith-N-Dar

There are other options for generators that work well and cost much less. It doesn't have to be red to work. Don't regret to much.


Yep, but the red one has the fuel pump so you can connect the outboard motor fuel tank and run all day and all night. Else, get up every few hours and refuel the little tank.
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Ive read about some of them. But it needs to be quiet and dependable like red. Sort of leaning towards the eu3000 now. The weight and price is certainly an issue but at least ill have support for it, and it should pretty much run everything on the pod. And it's quiet.
Don't know much about the others other than what I've read online. Assuming your talking about boliy and kipor.
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