{"id":7941,"date":"2021-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4wdsupacentre.com.au\/news\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:16:26","slug":"why-a-rooftop-tent-is-an-amazing-cold-weather-camping-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/why-a-rooftop-tent-is-an-amazing-cold-weather-camping-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Running a Portable Camping Generator For Your Caravan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019ve 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<\/a><\/strong> that power the 12v electrical gear when you\u2019re not plugged into a powered campsite, but in that scenario you likely won\u2019t 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\u2019s one that a portable caravan generator<\/a><\/strong> can solve \u2013 and here at Adventure Kings, we\u2019ve got the perfect option in the Kings 3kva portable generator<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a><\/strong> then you\u2019ll still be able to holiday in luxury and comfort like you want to! Because what\u2019s the use of going on holidays if you\u2019ve got to rough it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A portable generator<\/a><\/strong> is such a brilliant bit of gear for caravanners. The Kings 3kva generator<\/a><\/strong> 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll love the ability to not worry about pre-mixing two-stroke oil into the fuel with a Kings portable generator<\/a><\/strong>, because they run on four-stroke regular unleaded fuel. That means they\u2019re quieter running, more fuel efficient and much easier to start than the old two-stroke portable generators<\/a><\/strong> we all used to use. And because you don\u2019t have to carry two-stroke fuel, you can just carry a single jerry can of unleaded \u2013 perfect if you\u2019ve 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<\/a><\/strong> have is that they are tuned to run on regular 91 unleaded \u2013 no requirement for expensive, hard-to-find premium unleaded! They\u2019ll even run on Opal low-aromatic fuel without a drama, essential if you do a lot of outback travel to places where you\u2019ll want to run your camping generator<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, being able to directly run high-powered equipment like caravan air conditioning is only one of the benefits of a 3kva generator<\/a><\/strong>. If you\u2019ve got house deep cycle batteries<\/a><\/strong> then you\u2019ve likely got your van setup to be able to run many electrical equipment directly off the batteries while you\u2019re camping. No doubt you even carry a camping solar panel<\/a><\/strong> to recharge your house batteries while you\u2019re camped at an idyllic spot. But what about when the sun isn\u2019t out and it\u2019s overcast for days at a time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that scenario, carrying a portable camping generator<\/a><\/strong> as well as a separate 240v battery charger<\/a><\/strong> 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\u2019ve 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<\/a><\/strong> and run multiple 240v battery chargers off the one generator for simultaneous charging of multiple caravans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve design Adventure Kings portable generators<\/a><\/strong> to be ideal for caravanning, because they\u2019re so easy to start. No more breaking your back and working up a sweat constantly trying to pull-start a tired old generator<\/a><\/strong>. Just set the choke on the Kings generator<\/a><\/strong> 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\u2019ll fire into life, ready to be put to work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with a small overall dimensions, the Kings 3000w camping generator<\/strong> <\/a>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 \u2013 even though it really is very minimal at worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A word of note if you\u2019re in the market for a portable generator for camping<\/strong><\/a>. It\u2019s generally always a good idea to buy the biggest one that your budget and your storage space allows. We sell both a 2kva generator<\/a> <\/strong>and a 3kva generator<\/a><\/strong> here at 4WD Supacentre, but only recommend the 3kva generator<\/strong><\/a> for camping applications. Even if you have, say, an 1800w air conditioning unit, by the time you run that you leave yourself with\u00a0 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\u2019s always better to have a bigger, more powerful generator<\/strong> <\/a>that doesn\u2019t 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\u2019ll 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\u2019s exactly the same as your portable caravan generator<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 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 \u2013 and that goes for solar panels<\/a> <\/strong>and deep cycle batteries <\/a><\/strong>too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve 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\u2019re not plugged into a powered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123456,"featured_media":7944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}