pnichols
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Quote:... by a ban on generator use when tent campers are present...
I disagree somewhat. Tent campers may or not be quietness fanatics just because they are in tents. In fact many of them tent camp with noisy kids/pets/toys that can turn out to be way louder than many generators.
Our small battery charging generator runs full speed at 54dB. For even quieter battery charging, our idling V10 chassis engine is quieter than 54dB ... can't be heard above nature's sounds 30 feet away. We are very disapointed at the often remote and beautiful "no generator" camping areas, especially when paid for partly or in whole by tax dollars. However, we can understand and accept "no loud generator" camping areas. (With human nature being what it is to take a foot when you give them an inch, probably "no load generator" is un-enforceable in the long run.)
FWIW, I used to tent camp and backpack camp and in no way resented RV'ers when doing this.
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Calisdad
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Pauljdav wrote:The guy next to me this weekend had a 200o watt honda. It ran for hours and was running loud and fast. I don't know what he was running unless he left the water heater on electric.
I could not even hear my 3000 watt honda with his running.
If it was the same guy as us he was watching TV.
Its a too many people- we don't know how to be considerate- issue. Its not just gennys. Music is the #1 offender. Many cities ban radios from job sites.
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dadwolf2
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mt head wrote:The camping experience on public lands would be greatly enhanced by a ban on generator use when tent campers are present. We shouldn't disrespect our camping neighbors in this way. I personally have made modifications to my camper so that I no longer need a generator.
Not following that theory at all?? Tent campers get the peace and quiet and the rest don't? 
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profdant139
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It would be really great if more state and national parks would establish separate "generator friendly" and "generator prohibited" campgrounds. In Washington this summer, we found several campgrounds where one loop would allow gens and another nearby would not -- that is not quite adequate, since the noise carries a long way, from one loop to another. Sometimes I need my gen -- usually not -- and I would like that option!
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BobbyGray
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Honda generators have more than the virtue of being quiet. They also start easily. My 6000w. Briggs&Stratton special usually took 6 to 30 pulls on the cord to get it started for work every morning. And thats if it did start. I would watch the guy with an old 2500w honda pull his cord only once every morning. Needles to say, I hated him.
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bill h
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pnichols wrote:We are very disapointed at the often remote and beautiful "no generator" camping areas, especially when paid for partly or in whole by tax dollars. However, we can understand and accept "no loud generator" camping areas. (With human nature being what it is to take a foot when you give them an inch, probably "no load generator" is un-enforceable in the long run.)
Yeah. I am both sad and glad when I see generators prohibited. The proliferation of cheap rattletraps has ruined it for everybody.
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WildPlumYonder
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You can dry camp, without the use of a generator, just like anyone else in a "no generator" camp.
As far as tax dollars spent, it's just as annoying, from a tenter's POV, to see the money spent on the sites with full hookups and level pads and upgrading and widening roads for the really big RVs. I've been tent camping in a full campground where the only spot was a full hookup, and had to pay the full hookup price, even though I couldn't use them. Win some, lose some.
Since I bought the tent trailer and now the travel trailer, I tend to go to sites that are either "no generator" or have full hookups so that no one needs a generator (not that that stops people from bringing a construction generator in the back of a pickup).
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