RE: Generators
Mike, I can recall being camped with  some others a few years ago.  One rig
had a dead battery, bad alternator.  A member of the group placed his
generator about 50 feet away, just behind a little rise in the ground, fires
it up and hooked the battery charging port to the dead battery.  It ran
about half the day.  And I never realized it was running until I happened to
walk out that way late in the day, it was that quiet.  It had been placed
away