Well guys,

I guess I'm the odd one out on the electricity side of things! Although I use one or two 12 volt lights, I do mainly use gas lights - industrial revolution or not! My tv, dvd player , video player, and everything else apart from my washing machine is 12 volts!

My washing machine is a basic 3 year old twin tub working off 240 volts and does need a 850watt generator to run it. I use a twin tub because we are very short of water on our finca and whilst a front loading automatic machine is easier, it uses tons of water we simply don't have.

Looks like my system which works perfectly well for us seems to be not to everyones favour. Still if we were all the same, the world would be boring.