"... No, not everyone can
afford $45,000 or more for a nice LQ trailer with safe
heat. ..."
The "quiet" generators of which you speak, cost
$1000.00. For that amount of money you could:
1. Outfit a family of 4 with the best
sleeping bags made. Those I have allow us to sleep in MT in the
mountains in November (even in Feb. at a winter camping class.) in an
unheated tent in complete comfort.
and/or
2. Purchase and install a genuine, outside air
furnace in any LQ. and just as important, purchase 3 group 27 deep cycle
batteries, battery maintainers, chargers, etc. and run the furnace every night
for 4 nights on the battery power. Also with this budget, the cheap
incandescent lights that came with the camper can be replaced with fluorescent
and LED lights requiring 10% the electricity to run. This is what I
do. By the way, by carefully maintaining my LQ batteries, for the last 18
years gotten at least 5 years of use before replacement, so I don't buy the
stories that they have to be replaced every year or two. My present set
were purchased in 2000. Last spring one of the three died. I was not
competing heavily this year so we did not replace it. The two left
were plenty of power for a week in the summer where the furnace was run an hour
in the morning and an hour in the evening.
Bottom line:
I personally find the noise of cheap
generators running all night an abomination. Nobody has the right to
disturb 40 people's sleep just because they won't do some simple things
necessary to achieve personal comfort. I do admit that some persons have
health issues that require them to live in a room that is 80 F. I doubt
that many folk bring their 90 year old grandmother to endurance
rides.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower
Road Victor, MT 59875
