Rmack1 wrote:
.. one person wrote that the only thing he hears at night was a Honda generator 150 to 200 yards from him.
That's up to two football fields. I've been closer than that, and couldn't hear my Yamaha IF2000iS at all. Are those Hondas louder?
It's difficult to know the circumstances the Q person was in. It's also hard to know if that's an offhand remark, or if he really went over and looked at what was actually running. It may have been an old honda, non-inverter style. It may have been an eu2000i with a load on it.
It can be so quiet in the desert, at night, that you can hear all kinds of noises from a long distance, especially if there are no obstructions between you and the source. Ambient noise covers that up during daylight hours.
Frankly, I don't see that many Yamaha's, so it hard to say. I would imagine is about a toss-up.
