Any experts here? At the Bikesafe day on Saturday and bike club next to me had a generator running and allowed me to pop the kettle on a brew up - very kind of them. I started thinking maybe I should get a generator. So a quick bit of research led to lost of confusing and confliciting facts. Here's what I think I know (and the known unknowns, as Donald Rumsfeld might have said).
To boil a kettle on its own the small generators won't do - need more than 1Kva
To boil a kettle and run a fridge and charge a few appliances I need at least 3Kva, possibly more.
To power a laptop and charge mobile phones I need a sine wave generator to smooth out the surges, otherwise the batteries will be damaged.
If it going to be running near me, I need it to be quiet.
That seems to make the generator options very expensive.
Anybody know anything about this at all?
To boil a kettle on its own the small generators won't do - need more than 1Kva
To boil a kettle and run a fridge and charge a few appliances I need at least 3Kva, possibly more.
To power a laptop and charge mobile phones I need a sine wave generator to smooth out the surges, otherwise the batteries will be damaged.
If it going to be running near me, I need it to be quiet.
That seems to make the generator options very expensive.
Anybody know anything about this at all?