HEY GENERATOR............SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[23hitman]

We bought a portable Briggs & Straton 5000 watt generator. Affordable and highly ranked for durability. Downside? Everyone on the park can hear it.

Anyone run into this?
Anyone know of an added muffler mod/add on/Harbor Freight device?

Thanks

[Tvov]

Be careful about adding an extra muffler. Sometimes those small engines will not work correctly with any additional muffling, usually meaning exhaust resistance.

[Rolling_Condo]

Check out the Supergen website. They feature Champion generators and they have custom sound enclosures for them.

[Peg_Leg]

I had a 10 hp briggs gen. I made a muffler, enclosure and still wished it was in the next county when I had to start it. We've been running our Yamaha for over 8 yrs now. I had to replace the battery once, I do like elec start. It uses 1/3 the gas the briggs used.

[TexasShadow]

take it back and tell 'em you want a QUIET one. The Lord will bless you for it, and so will all your camping neighbors.

[coolbreeze01]

I've never camped by someone with a 5K B&S gen-set. You know its loud, so run it when it won't disturb people. Noon or midnight depending on where you are should work...........

[path1]

If they won't take it back (which I think they will) check out some "marine" stores. Have seen some after market exhaust systems for sailboats that make it quieter. For starters and not sure is
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategories1_11151_10001_-1 but are a lot others.

[Shadow_Catcher]

There are ways to reduce sound by building an enclosure but you need to sound baffle and provide sufficient cooling using a radiator fan or such. I went with solar, I hate generators

[ReferDog]

Get rid of it before you are hurt or tossed out of the park!

[mrhddh]

Unfortunately a battery with a bad cell caused me to have to break out my Coleman generator this weekend. Used it sparingly and made sure that it was well shielded by vegetation. I did not want to be "that" camper. We did hear another generator "purring" nearby. Had to look for it. Found a Honda 2000 sitting in the middle of a campsite. Yeah, it's small, but it was doing exactly what the owner intended, and was not irritating a bunch of people while doing it.

[FLY_4_FUN]

sadly affordable is typically inversely proportional to quiet where generators are concerned. If you felt the generator was loud, then everybody else around surely felt the same and there is very little you can do to quiet a loud generator short of shutting it off. If you can return it...I would. Spend more on a Honda or Yamaha, or if they are too far out of your budget then ask for suggestions on some of the more reasonably priced units.

Daryll

[2oldman]

no. Get rid of it. Ask us before buying something next time! B&S is the loudest of the loud!

[time2roll]

Return the rattlebox and think solar.

[ScottG]

It's not just the exhaust, the engine itself is super noisy and there's very little you can do about that.