Portable Generator and Redone

[Trevor Adams]

Hello,

I was looking for some advice into running a gas generator for a shoot coming up. Basicly I haven't worked much with Gennies and was wondering if there is any pitfalls I should know about. I plan to use it to charge red power cells, run a jvc lcd monitor. And possibly run the camera directly from the gennie. Is it going to blow up my precious camera gear? Sorry if these sound like basic questions. There are a couple that I was looking at but more or less like this guy here.

http://www.ridgid.com/Tools/RD8000-Generator/EN/index.htm

Any insight or experience with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Jeff Zueger]

That seems to be a bit overkill for what you need to power, unless I'm missing something. I use Honda EU2000's a lot, they are fairly quiet and are regulated for use with electronics. You can also parallel 2 of the together if you need more power.

 

[Andrew J.]

Trilabite, I feel the items you listed really do not need a "generator", they all seem to be very low draining devices, I'd recommend to look into inverter options, such as a pure sine wave inverter hooked up to your vehicle while its running or directly to a Optima yellow top series battery.

 

[Trevor Adams]

Thanks for the feedback. The Honda EU2000 might be a good way to go. Allot of what we shoot is going to be quite remote, and a vehicle wont be a viable option. Although I do agree that is a good solution if a vehicle is accessible. My thoughts on a bigger Gennei, is if I need more juice for a future shoot I have it. Instead of needing yet another generator. I would prefer one that is simply up to any task. I suppose the real question is does this bigger Generator I'm looking at have the same regulated power as the Honda Jeff mentioned. Or am I at risk of frying some sensitive electronics with it.

 

[Ariel Weiss]

Honda inverter generator

Honda inverter generator

I suggest you pick one of those:
http://www.hondapowerequipment.com/products/models.aspx?page=models&section=P2GG&category=sq

 

[Pawel Achtel]

Spent one month on a piece of rock in the middle of the southern ocean filming R1 powered with Honda 1KW genie. In a word: brilliant.

The genie only uses about 0.5L of petrol an hour, it is highly portable, ultra quiet, and very reliable. I ended up using the genie instead of batteries - much quicker and simpler.

 

[Trevor Adams]

Sounds good guys, you sold me! Just picked up the 1KW genie special. Excited to see how it goes. Thanks for the photo Pawel, that looks like a beautiful place to shoot!