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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jamesroadking wrote:
A Honda 3000 watt generator list around $2299.00 The Yamaha one is something like $1800.00 or you can get the Champion 4000 watt one for about $250-$300.
Like I was saying, putting the generator on some carpeting in the inclosed bed of your truck puts the noise level probably the same as or Less than those Over Priced name brand generators.
"A fool and his money are soon parted"
Putting an open frame contractor generator on carpet in a truck bed would hardly get it to the noise level of a reasonably installed built-in Onan generator, much less a good inverter generator. The Onan would be at least as well enclosed and likely has a quieter engine to begin with (with a more sophisticated muffler arrangement).
I encountered one of the Honda 7000 watt inverter generators "in the wild" some time ago, powering a food truck in an amusement park (on what turned out to be a sort of food truck celebration day). I had to be within about ten or fifteen feet of it to be able to discern that it was running. I was quite impressed, even considering that it wasn't the quietest of areas to begin with and having no idea how much of a load it was operating under.
