Power while Camping?
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I was expecting the OP to mention a cooker or music at most but a PROJECTOR WITH GAMES CONSOLES PLUS A BEER COOLER?
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Some would say that about spending hundreds to watch cars drive in circles
At the very minimum we want lights, so will a car battery do the job? I'm mot even sure how you would connect anything up to one?
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Cooker? 3 BBQs a day
Coolers aren't a stretch? I've seen loads of people using cig lighter coolers in car and at campsites and things.
Leave the beers outside. It's cold outside.
It better not be cold!
I might also be in this field
Leave the beers outside. It's cold outside.
Its in July!
(Awaits UK weather comments....)
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BBQ all the way. Buy a cheap one from asda or argos or something and then bin it at the end of the weekend or how ever long you're staying. Leave the beers outside. Buy some big torches and prop them up around your gazebo. Sorted. An xbox is the last thing I'd want on a trip to see a race.
Hahahaha this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this year so far. A projector and games consoles ****ing LOL
OK, I'll humour your ridiculous idea.
You'll need...
Deep cycle leisure battery or two.. (borrow from any caravan owner you know)
A pure sine wave inverter. (1000w should be more than enough) Approx £120 Ahh eBay to the rescue.. £100 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000W-100...-MOTORHOME-12V-DC-to-240V-AC-UK-/161064810221
A split charger. £44 off the bay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-6mtr-...d=100005&prg=1048&rk=2&rkt=5&sd=251439571836&
The car charges the deep cycle batteries via the split charger on the way there.
That should leave you enough reserve power in the leisure batteries to game, party, charge and light your tent for the weekend in SILENCE via the pure sine wave inverter, without your car battery going flat
DO NOT buy any sort of diesel/petrol powered generator.
You will have it thrown in the ditch in the middle of the night or they'll put a hole in your fuel tank... seen it happen.
No one wants to hear one of those things thudding away all weekend!, especially at night.
OK, I'll humour your ridiculous idea.
You'll need...
Deep cycle leisure battery or two.. (borrow from any caravan owner you know)
A pure sine wave inverter. (1000w should be more than enough) Approx £120 Ahh eBay to the rescue.. £100 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000W-100...-MOTORHOME-12V-DC-to-240V-AC-UK-/161064810221
A split charger. £44 off the bay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-6mtr-...d=100005&prg=1048&rk=2&rkt=5&sd=251439571836&
The car charges the deep cycle batteries via the split charger on the way there.
That should leave you enough reserve power in the leisure batteries to game, party, charge and light your tent for the weekend in SILENCE via the pure sine wave inverter, without your car battery going flat
DO NOT buy any sort of diesel/petrol powered generator.
You will have it thrown in the ditch in the middle of the night or they'll put a hole in your fuel tank... seen it happen.
No one wants to hear one of those things thudding away all weekend!, especially at night.
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Ah ok, I jumped to the conclusion you're at Woodlands.
Loads of people were using generators the other year, was bloody loud!
The website specifically says generators are welcome, but there's a midnight curfew which is perfectly fair. I doubt a few generators will drown out the music and noise.
We have deliberately chosen the generator friendly lively noisy campsite.
We have deliberately chosen the generator friendly lively noisy campsite.
Litchlake. Heard far to many bad things about Woodlands. For a field Litchlake seems really popular.
Go on, be one of those cretins that has a generator running all the time keeping everyone awake.
There was one when I went to silverstone a few years ago which was almost always on. There was overwhelming cheers when it actually got turned off the once along with variations of "thank **** for that"
There was one when I went to silverstone a few years ago which was almost always on. There was overwhelming cheers when it actually got turned off the once along with variations of "thank **** for that"
