Briggs and Stratton inverter generator

samhain7 wrote:
So if the Honda and Yamaha are really that much louder, God bless them.

I'm sure you mean "that much quieter" ... because they are. ;) That said, any generator regardless of brand, regardless of whether it's a "quiet" inverter model, is a man made machine that is producing an unnatural noise in a natural environment, regardless of whether you feel you can carry on a conversation standing beside it or your neighbour doesn't seem to notice it. It's noise and it's unnatural and the only way to beat that is to either not run it at all or to properly enclose it so the racket it makes can't radiate out to the rest of the world. I've managed to do that pretty well with my own genset noise reduction box, know I could do even better if I were willing to put more $$$ into it, but at 20' it truly is barely detectable, enclosed in the box which in turn is enclosed in the back of my Avalanche. Sitting open on the ground though even a Honda EU2000i is still too noisy, yours with the noise ratings it has would be much worse regardless of how "quiet" you think it may be ... the numbers don't lie. ;)