At the FD today. I have at my disposal a 2000i Honda to compare with the CPE 2000i. I also video taped so you can get an idea of sound and see what I have done. I am in the process of editing the pieces together (for YouTube). I have to say, the Champion is pretty comparible to the Honda for sound. The Champion is a little noisy at both vented areas of its case. The Honda is noisy at the exhaust side. Honda does a nice job muffling the intake noise, as I took that apart and ran it with and without the cover. The tests I ran involve the use of a large ventilation fan used to apply positive pressure to a structure involved in a fire to remove smoke or Carbon Monoxide. This fan is high power and consumes lots of electricity. It is designed by the manufacturer to ramp it's power from 0 amps to whatever requirements necessary over 5 or so seconds to run selected rpm's by the operator without kicking the breaker on high surge. The Champion was not able to run the fan at it's maximum of 2400 rpm's. Once 14.4 amps was reached at 122 volts (1756 watts) overload light came on and shut the power to the recepticles. (this is noted in the manual as well. It will not run continuously over the rated running watts of 1600 Watts). The Honda ran the fan at it's max setting. It showed 14.4 amps at 122 volts as well and continued to run. The Honda manual states it will run up to Max Wattage of 2000 for 30 minutes. My phone was used to video the test. You will hear both generators in each test. They sound loud as the mic adjusts, however, you can hear me move around, and once the fan starts you can hear a better representation of the sound from each generator with respect to the wind produced by the fan. Note my position in relation to the fan and the generator. For the money, the Champion seems to work fine. I'll post back the link. Thanks.
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