Deck Box as a Generator Quiet Box?
All- I was lying in bed last night thinking of a way to quiet down my Champion 3500w generator. I have read several different post on RV.net as well as on the web however I came up with the though...
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bgradert wrote:
I half tempted to order one from Amazon, assemble it, run the generator in it for a couple of minutes to see how it does.
Your choice, but I already gave you the correct answer - "Any box on it's own will be shockingly ineffective at reducing genset noise." ;)
If you really want to control all the racket, which is particularly difficult with an open frame genset, you're going to have to spend some $$$, the most important expenditure being noise control barrier material such as this from West Marine.
Yes, you should have purchased a quieter inverter genset if your goal was to use it for camping ... but even so-called "quiet" inverter gensets still make a lot of racket, despite manufacturers' claims to the contrary. A properly designed quiet box can reduce that noise significantly - but doing so ain't exactly cheap. :E
There are no short steps around this - do it right or don't bother doing it at all. :W
