Kodiak Solar Generator Saves the Day

We recently spent a long weekend camping in our travel trailer in a National Park Service campground.  It was our first trip of the season and we found a great spot right by the lake that rewarded us with an amazing view, but what it had in beauty it lacked in hookups.  We were “dry camping” which means camping without onsite utilities.  This is my wife’s least favorite kind of camping, but I was able to convince her it would be okay if we rationed our water supplies.  I wasn’t too worried about power because we have two deep charge batteries and a solar panel, so I figured that we would be okay.

My wife doesn’t like entering dark spaces and I didn’t realize how many lights were being left on inside the camper every night, while we were spending time by the campfire.  By the third night our bright white lights were really more of a dull orange….uh oh.  I checked the battery monitor and sure enough we were on “low”.  This isn’t good I thought, if I let the charge go too low on the deep charge batteries it will actually damage them.  It was now dark outside so I couldn’t count on my solar panel to recharge the batteries and it was after 10pm, so even if I had my Honda generator I couldn’t run it because of park service quiet hours.  I was really getting nervous because we had some systems like the water pump and refrigerator fan that I needed to run through the night that were going to continue to drain the battery.

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Fortunately, I had brought my Kodiak Solar Generator with me.  The Kodiak Solar Generator was designed to support 30 Amp service, so I was able to plug my camper directly into the Kodiak and it immediately began charging the batteries on the camper.  I could leave it plugged in without worry for two reasons: 1) the generator runs silently, so I wasn’t going to break quiet hours. 2) the generator will not allow itself to discharge to the point that it damages the internal battery, so I could rest easy knowing it would shut itself off when it got too low.

Now the Kodiak Solar Generator wasn’t able to fully recharge both batteries, but when I woke up the next morning, my needed systems had run all night and the Kodiak Solar Generator was able to recharge my batteries from “low” to “fair” which got me out of the danger zone for the deep charge batteries.

The sun was up and the solar panel took over charging the batteries and we learned to be more conservative with our lights and batteries.  The Kodiak Solar Generator might be a luxury, but it delivered when I needed it, and I will enjoy every camping trip a little more knowing it is in my truck.

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