Questionnaire regarding design of a portable generator.

[mivaso]

We are a group of students at Aalborg University in Denmark, which currently are working on a project where we are designing a small portable generator.
We wish to know if such a product would interest people who participate in different kind of outdoor activities and hope you would spend a couple of minutes filling out our questionnaire.

From your feedback we will evaluate the need and demands for such a generator and that information will help us in the future design of the generator.

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Thank you for your time.

[Hobjob]

Generators are, even the "whisper quiet" Honda series, very noisy things. I suspect that most people who frequent this forum would abhor them as we are all into wildlife.

Have a look at the Yahoo Motorhome forum. Its a topic that comes up quite often and causes heated debate, though I haven't been on that site for some time.

Fuel cells are now becoming cheap enough for a quiet re-charging of motorhome batteries and I suspect will be the future.

Try also some of the sailing fora, 'cos they also cause debate in that hobby area.

The other thing that has happened in the last few years, is that battery charging technology has improved in leaps and bounds, and large output (30 amps/hr) can now be easily obtained from motorhome engines, so that separate gennies are no longer needed. The circuitry nowadays easily can run both the engine side and keep separate from the leisure side.

[Mr Mag00]

'Generators are, even the "whisper quiet" Honda series, very noisy things. I suspect that most people who frequent this forum would abhor them as we are all into wildlife.'
answering for myself.....
....well i for one use them when mothing in areas where i cannot run an electrical lead eg any further than 150m from a building with supply. so some of us may be able to help with the questionnaire

[Lance Morgan]

So do I Mr M. I'm happy to help with the questionnaire.