Generators.

[tinkicker0]

Have a Kippor IG2000 suitcase. Fine piece of kit, vewy wiliable and its a inverter type, so clean power. However when running a 1500w fan heater and charging the batteries, it does get noisy and uses about a litre an hour of juice.
Think it cost just less than £400 new from amazon.

Just charging the batteries though, using an intelligent battery charger on 240v it's whisper quiet on tickover.

Supposed to be identical to the Honda Eu2000i? internally as they are made in the same factory and the Kippors were the result of a "production over run".

Edit: found the invoice - cost £320 in november 2008.

 

[Conachair]

As others have said you need more batteries. I´ve lived aboard for a few years now, charging is from wind/solar/main engine and honda genny. The honda is handy as you can run power tools an anchor as well. The running main engine without load discussion will run forever but countless thousands of boats do it every day all over the world. I´ve never heard of glazing proiblems, every other possible way to break down they will. Wind is great when it is there as you get a lot of power but it´s the sort of thing you will try to avoid when anchored. Whatever you do it´s a boat and will therefore cost money

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Wind Generator Rutland 913; will provide all the power you need

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

I am looking at the Machine Mart booklet (www.machinemart.co.uk) they have a 1kw 4 stroke geny, Clarke Inverter Pure Sine wave, 64dBA at 7 m noise level. £250. I think i will buy one of this.

Has anyone used this geny?

 

[dextercath96]

Solar Power Generator

Solar Generator, Is it environmental friendly

equipment?
Ideal for camping or emergency power outages, the
Sun Power Port is a portable generator that when

used
to its full potential will pay for itself in less

than two years.
In one day of full sunshine, the solar panel easily

charges
the 12 volt (standard automobile) battery. An

inverter
changes the DC current to AC. From there the

electrical energy
is easily accessible to most standard 110 volt

small
appliances used in North America.

 

[CaptainBob]

Thanks for all the replies. I still can't decide what to do, but will upgrade the battery bank.

CaptainBob

I hope our Honda EU10i was not to nosey for you as we were moored next to you last weekend at the Yealm, we have found it to be very economical and reliable and were lucky to find one that had been used once on Ebay for £450. We also find our Rutland 913 to be handy at topping up the batteries when the boat is left on our mooring. Hope you find the right solution for yourselves.

Markch

Hello! Small world! Saw/heard yours. I said to Rose, "ooh, they've got a Honda EU10i, it's really quiet, I think we should get one of those". We couldn't hear it at all when we were snug below decks.

Watch out next time we race back from the Yealm - I've fixed my engine now

 

[sarabande]

hmmm. 64dbA at SEVEN metres ?

Wonder what results they would get at a more reasonable distance, given that sound ressure uses the inverse square law?

dbA scale is also not very sensitive to loud noise at low and high frequencies, where the dbC rating is preferred.


Dim advertising, sorry.

 

[Cliveshep]

Have a Kippor IG2000 suitcase. Fine piece of kit, vewy wiliable and its a inverter type, so clean power. However when running a 1500w fan heater and charging the batteries, it does get noisy and uses about a litre an hour of juice.
Think it cost just less than £400 new from amazon.

Just charging the batteries though, using an intelligent battery charger on 240v it's whisper quiet on tickover.

Supposed to be identical to the Honda Eu2000i? internally as they are made in the same factory and the Kippors were the result of a "production over run".

Edit: found the invoice - cost £320 in november 2008.

Not any more, they've now gone up considerably, here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kipor-2000-...=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=diy&qid=1265558450&sr=8-11

 

[Watson47]

Thanks for all the replies. I still can't decide what to do, but will upgrade the battery bank.



Hello! Small world! Saw/heard yours. I said to Rose, "ooh, they've got a Honda EU10i, it's really quiet, I think we should get one of those". We couldn't hear it at all when we were snug below decks.

Watch out next time we race back from the Yealm - I've fixed my engine now

One other plus for 'Suitcase' generators is that they are portable and can be used for multiple purposes, at home etc. Like you, I assessed the various options, though for me it was more for cooking as I don't like gas and for boat battery charging. I opted for the Honda EU20i. Also have a change over switch on home electrics and it provides power for essentials during power cuts. In addition it is good solution for extending the scope & range of 240v power tools.

 

[tinkicker0]

One other plus for 'Suitcase' generators is that they are portable and can be used for multiple purposes, at home etc. Like you, I assessed the various options, though for me it was more for cooking as I don't like gas and for boat battery charging. I opted for the Honda EU20i. Also have a change over switch on home electrics and it provides power for essentials during power cuts. In addition it is good solution for extending the scope & range of 240v power tools.

Exactly. I have a 240v machine inlet socket on the outside wall of the house where the central heating boiler room is. Connected to a 13amp 3 pin socket inside by the boiler, just a simple trailing lead type mounted on the wall.
When we had a 6 hour power outage just before xmas, just unplugged the boiler from the normal socket, plugged it into the emergency socket, ran the lead from the outhouse where the genny was, plugged it in to the inlet and we had heat and hot water again.

The boiler apparently uses sod all current because the genny never even had to rev up to provide the juice.

I'd think twice about doing it with a cheap non inverter type tho, dunno how the control board circuitry would cope with spikey power.

 

[Heckler]

please please please don't ever moor next to me stu

Another forumite does, he says he cant hear it!
Stu

 

[JKay]

Another forumite does, he says he cant hear it!
Stu

What did you say ?

 

[petlan]

generators

Generators.
Buy cheap and throw away. Our previous diesel genny lasted less than 1,000 hours. We now have a 2.8kw petrol unit, cost 179 euros. No probs thus far. Had to re-program the inverter/charger to take the dirty electric it makes. Batteries, we have 2,000 ah. Solar panels, 500 watts, which work very well here in southern France (300ah per day ave). They do however, orientate on both axis. Anything to avoid harbour fees.