3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Well, I would like to show my appreciation for the number of people that have posted very usefull information and research on this thread. We were mulling over getting one of the Champion 2000w inverter models but even at $500 at Sams club, that was stretching our meager budget (or I should say the meager budget that the wife could stomach for a generator). Even then, I wasn't sure it could or should run our 13.5 A/C unit.
Thanks to this discussion, we picked up one of the 3500w champions from Camping world recently when they had the $9 shipping deal. Arrived well packed with Styrofoam keeping the engine and gen head secured on the frame and not resting on the motor mounts.
Anyway, after I fired it up (First pull), it wasn't as quiet as I had hoped but much quieter than I had feared. It had no trouble firing up the A/C and it was about 95f out. That was with the electric fridge and converter running.
I did a quick test for sound abatement and think I have found a very cheap and simple method. A while back we bought some of those modular rubber exercise mats at sams club. The closest thing I can find to illustrate would be these...
http://www.ediscountbike.com/Kinetic-Modular-Trainer/-p7705947.html
I seem to remember the ones we bought from Sams club were a lot cheaper.
I found that the interlocking edges work just as well for creating a 3d cube as they do for a 2d mat. I made 3 walls and a roof. I put it over the genset with the open end being the exhaust end (of course). Holy cow that was a huge difference!
This was just a test to see what it would do. I will cut out a hole and put a 12v fan on one panel that will blow into the front of the engine. Hopefully that will provide enough air flow. I can cut up one of the sections of mat and create a permanent baffle for the fan inlet.
Where we usually dry camp, there is only forest to the rear of the camp site. We can aim the exhaust end that way and have no one but the wildlife complaining to the camp host.
Edit: After looking at that link I used as an example, the ones from Sams were alot bigger too, more like 2' x 2' or more. They left a decent amount of space around the frame.
Thanks to this discussion, we picked up one of the 3500w champions from Camping world recently when they had the $9 shipping deal. Arrived well packed with Styrofoam keeping the engine and gen head secured on the frame and not resting on the motor mounts.
Anyway, after I fired it up (First pull), it wasn't as quiet as I had hoped but much quieter than I had feared. It had no trouble firing up the A/C and it was about 95f out. That was with the electric fridge and converter running.
I did a quick test for sound abatement and think I have found a very cheap and simple method. A while back we bought some of those modular rubber exercise mats at sams club. The closest thing I can find to illustrate would be these...
http://www.ediscountbike.com/Kinetic-Modular-Trainer/-p7705947.html
I seem to remember the ones we bought from Sams club were a lot cheaper.
I found that the interlocking edges work just as well for creating a 3d cube as they do for a 2d mat. I made 3 walls and a roof. I put it over the genset with the open end being the exhaust end (of course). Holy cow that was a huge difference!
This was just a test to see what it would do. I will cut out a hole and put a 12v fan on one panel that will blow into the front of the engine. Hopefully that will provide enough air flow. I can cut up one of the sections of mat and create a permanent baffle for the fan inlet.
Where we usually dry camp, there is only forest to the rear of the camp site. We can aim the exhaust end that way and have no one but the wildlife complaining to the camp host.
Edit: After looking at that link I used as an example, the ones from Sams were alot bigger too, more like 2' x 2' or more. They left a decent amount of space around the frame.
