Be careful choosing a generator if you go that route, You are headed to Federal park and they will not allow non approved generators.
Could you explain that a bit further? I have never been questioned about my generator, and never seen any posting in regard to type of generators, just operating times allowed.
Thanks,
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I agree the poor man's generator isn't a perfect solution, but it is functional.
As for generators in federal parks - for starters they must meet spark-arrester rules, which the cheap ones don't have. 2nd, if they are too loud, and all of the cheap ones are, they can tell you to shut it down.
Spark arresters, yes. That I knew. Honestly in the past twenty years or so, never seen a generator without one. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place. But I never go into a Harbor Freight store either.
As for noise. I have read that there is a max db for gens in National park campgrounds, but from my experience they do not enforce it. Reason told to me was they have no working db meters.
A few years ago in Glacier, I was BS'ing with an LE Ranger that I knew, the guy next to us started up a generator that was loud enough to be heard in Yellowstone, and the ranger and I had to walk down the road to continue our talk.
But thanks for the reply Flybob...
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I was not implying anything, my comment on approved generators was made after reading the reference to a Harbor Freight $100 unit.
They are two cycle ....... Oil mixed gas......... Same as a weed eater or chainsaw and have a spark arestor........ Way quiter then most non quiet ones I have heard running...... It won't run a full 5er but will run the basics and charge ya........ 4 hours or so on 1 gallon of mixed gas
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