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wa8yxm
Feb 16, 2017Explorer III
How quite it quiet?
I run my Onan with a Gen-turi, this does not change the volume so much as the tone, but it does make a slight change.
I have been standing about 130 feet from the RV and had a man tell me "You can start the generator now" it was running.
I have demonstrated how hot the Gen-turi gets by holding it with my hand, Generator running, and neither I nor the persons I was with needed to rasie our voices to talk.
HONDA
At QZ some years ago I got to visit the Yahama display. The following, unless noted, is no load.
a 1200i.. I could feel the exhaust but could not hear it over ambient (Crowd) noise.
A 2400i. I could hear it,, my companion could not (Long story but I am used to hearing sounds that are buried in noise.. Both a Amateur radio operator and a professional one, Many times I've heard clearly voices buried in noise because I knew what to listen to and was able to "Filter" out the noise mentally).
A 2400i under half load.. We were still speaking normally
A 2400i under FULL load.. We finally had to raise our voices.
I run my Onan with a Gen-turi, this does not change the volume so much as the tone, but it does make a slight change.
I have been standing about 130 feet from the RV and had a man tell me "You can start the generator now" it was running.
I have demonstrated how hot the Gen-turi gets by holding it with my hand, Generator running, and neither I nor the persons I was with needed to rasie our voices to talk.
HONDA
At QZ some years ago I got to visit the Yahama display. The following, unless noted, is no load.
a 1200i.. I could feel the exhaust but could not hear it over ambient (Crowd) noise.
A 2400i. I could hear it,, my companion could not (Long story but I am used to hearing sounds that are buried in noise.. Both a Amateur radio operator and a professional one, Many times I've heard clearly voices buried in noise because I knew what to listen to and was able to "Filter" out the noise mentally).
A 2400i under half load.. We were still speaking normally
A 2400i under FULL load.. We finally had to raise our voices.
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