If you’ve got a caravan that you take away on holidays, then chances are you have it setup with a full electrical power system that includes everything from a TV right through to air conditioning. It even likely has AGM house batteries that power the 12v electrical gear when you’re not plugged into a powered campsite, but in that scenario you likely won’t be able to run the higher-powered equipment like your air conditioning or a microwave. And because most of us buy a caravan to be able to take these sort of luxuries away on holidays with us, this presents a bit of a problem! Thankfully, it’s one that a portable caravan generator can solve – and here at Adventure Kings, we’ve got the perfect option in the Kings 3kva portable generator.

Yes, you genuinely can leave those over-crowded and expensive powered campsites behind in search of beautiful freedom campsites, and when you carry a 3000w generator then you’ll still be able to holiday in luxury and comfort like you want to! Because what’s the use of going on holidays if you’ve got to rough it?

A portable generator is such a brilliant bit of gear for caravanners. The Kings 3kva generator is compact enough to be transportable in your caravan boot and able to be carried out and setup when you get to an amazing campsite, allowing you to run your air conditioning to cool your van down, or cook a beautiful dinner in your internal kitchen wherever you are in the country!

You’ll love the ability to not worry about pre-mixing two-stroke oil into the fuel with a Kings portable generator, because they run on four-stroke regular unleaded fuel. That means they’re quieter running, more fuel efficient and much easier to start than the old two-stroke portable generators we all used to use. And because you don’t have to carry two-stroke fuel, you can just carry a single jerry can of unleaded – perfect if you’ve got a four-stroke motorbike or a petrol 4WD to cut down on total amount of fuel carried. Finally, the huge advantage that Kings camping generators have is that they are tuned to run on regular 91 unleaded – no requirement for expensive, hard-to-find premium unleaded! They’ll even run on Opal low-aromatic fuel without a drama, essential if you do a lot of outback travel to places where you’ll want to run your camping generator.

However, being able to directly run high-powered equipment like caravan air conditioning is only one of the benefits of a 3kva generator. If you’ve got house deep cycle batteries then you’ve likely got your van setup to be able to run many electrical equipment directly off the batteries while you’re camping. No doubt you even carry a camping solar panel to recharge your house batteries while you’re camped at an idyllic spot. But what about when the sun isn’t out and it’s overcast for days at a time?

In that scenario, carrying a portable camping generator as well as a separate 240v battery charger will allow you to easily top up your house batteries by running your 240v charger for a couple of hours every couple of days. This means you’ve got a guaranteed, foolproof way to keep your house batteries topped up at all times! Even better, if you travel and holiday with friends who also have caravans, you can share the same portable generator and run multiple 240v battery chargers off the one generator for simultaneous charging of multiple caravans!

We’ve design Adventure Kings portable generators to be ideal for caravanning, because they’re so easy to start. No more breaking your back and working up a sweat constantly trying to pull-start a tired old generator. Just set the choke on the Kings generator to ON, turn on the fuel and prime the primer bulb six times. Then, a couple of gentle pulls on the starter cord and it’ll fire into life, ready to be put to work!

And with a small overall dimensions, the Kings 3000w camping generator will comfortably fit within most caravan front boots without a drama. We keep ours along with a 20 metre extension cord in the boot/storage box, and when we want to use it we run it a little away from camp to the end of the 20m cord to minimise noise intrusion – even though it really is very minimal at worst.

A word of note if you’re in the market for a portable generator for camping. It’s generally always a good idea to buy the biggest one that your budget and your storage space allows. We sell both a 2kva generator and a 3kva generator here at 4WD Supacentre, but only recommend the 3kva generator for camping applications. Even if you have, say, an 1800w air conditioning unit, by the time you run that you leave yourself with  very little spare power to run an electric cooktop, or charge your house batteries, or run the telly and the internal lights. As well, it’s always better to have a bigger, more powerful generator that doesn’t have to work as hard. Think of it like towing a big caravan with a little four-cylinder hatchback versus a big V8 diesel 4WD. The hatchback will likely be able to do 80% of the job, but it’ll be operating at or past its limits, compared to the V8 diesel 4WD taking it all in its stride and being unfussed while doing it. That’s exactly the same as your portable caravan generator – the last thing you want to do is run it at redline its entire life. Bigger is almost always better when it comes to a generator – and that goes for solar panels and deep cycle batteries too!