The move is all but complete, we are living in our camper at the 12 with all we really need. Our household is secure in a box van, we have a small cabin being readied for winter occupancy and we are managing.
The worst part is not being able to find whatever it is we need. We know roughly where is was put so we are on a constant treasure hunt and finding all the other stuff we were looking for last week.
Living here in winter is not a wise move yet we continue to defy logic and consume wads of energies to maintain the frigid empire.
We have a small arsenal of generators, a 1500 watt Homelite, a 3000W Honda inverter generator, a 8000 Watt Lister light tower and a 14Kw Hatz trailer generator.The first two are too small and the last two are noisy.
Enter a Whisperwatt 7000 from one of my workplaces. Powerful, quiet and compact. Whats not to love?
A little two cylinder Kubota diesel running at 2500 rpm worries me. A good little unit though it may be, it seems like a ticking time bomb but I think we'll take a chance on it with 5000 hrs and see what fails first. The engine or the generator end.
We don't need a lot of power, except when we do. The solar set up is good but a few days without sun and we're dead in the water.
The house can run comfortably on the Honda but when you need to run a couple of block heaters to get a vehicle started, you need some muscle.
There is no doubt it will cost some coin to run this lot through the winter but the balance is that summer compensates our power needs, there is no finer place to live than in Alberta through the summer.
Winter is hell.
