Generator noise level

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Originally Posted by gruntfuttock

Maybe hahaha, I just wonder at some of the extremist views at times if they fart into a can and then sell the methane? 😂

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Stephanie Matto, whoever she is, made over $200K doing just that. Never mind every minute, there's one born every second.

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Originally Posted by gruntfuttock

One person, on one of the pages even suggested that “if there is anyone using a generator near me I would take an axe to his cables and possibly the generator itself. If you cant go 100% solar then don’t go”. Rather intolerant I think.

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I ran out of battery. There was mostly cloud over a couple of days so my solar panels couldn’t charge the fridge batteries.

I could have started my car to charge them but it’s not the most efficient way as there isn’t a lot of charge at idle. I didn’t want to break camp to go driving to charge the batteries.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

I ran out of battery. There was mostly cloud over a couple of days so my solar panels couldn’t charge the fridge batteries.

I could have started my car to charge them but it’s not the most efficient way as there isn’t a lot of charge at idle. I didn’t want to break camp to go driving to charge the batteries.

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Exactly one of my thoughts. Maybe someone might invent a little hamster wheel with hamster that can do the job silently and environmentally safe. [bighmmm][bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by gruntfuttock

I might try this with some sort of foam on the inside on 3 of the sides.

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Last year we had a number of planned and unplanned outages > 6 hours. Any night it was stinking hot I ran the generator for a couple of hours to run the split A/C in the bedroom an keep the UPS(s) charged up.
We live in a suburb, so it's not ideal.

I found the best results using boards to direct the sound straight up. It was incredibly effective. I assembled them around the gen, left the top open and the exhaust end board at about 45 degrees so the hot air followed the noise up.
I'd done a bit of a walk around the surrounding area doing some before and after subjective listening tests and it ended up barely audible over the neighbours fence.

I played with some old insulated panels I had lying around and if there was a difference it was imperceptible. The concept of reflecting the sound seemed to work just as well.

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Originally Posted by BradC

Last year we had a number of planned and unplanned outages > 6 hours. Any night it was stinking hot I ran the generator for a couple of hours to run the split A/C in the bedroom an keep the UPS(s) charged up.
We live in a suburb, so it's not ideal.

I found the best results using boards to direct the sound straight up. It was incredibly effective. I assembled them around the gen, left the top open and the exhaust end board at about 45 degrees so the hot air followed the noise up.
I'd done a bit of a walk around the surrounding area doing some before and after subjective listening tests and it ended up barely audible over the neighbours fence.

I played with some old insulated panels I had lying around and if there was a difference it was imperceptible. The concept of reflecting the sound seemed to work just as well.

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I’ll definitely give that a go. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by BradC

...and it ended up barely audible over the neighbours fence.

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How much noise does your neighbours fence make?

[emoji53], sorry.

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Originally Posted by biggin

How much noise does your neighbours fence make?

[emoji53], sorry.

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In the wind, a bit. When the kids are banging on it, a lot. When the dog hits it running full tilt chasing a rat, it's like thunder.
The generator is inconsequential by comparison! :tease:

People idling their vehicles to 'warm them up ' is more of a real nuisance,and a dumb idea,than a quietish gen going for an hour or so,not that we have ever used one.

Last year at Canarvon Gorge in the middle of winter, a coach driver decided to 'warm' up the engine,it was idling for well over 45 minutes,before it was even loaded.
Bloody noisy and annoying.
And unnecessary.

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Originally Posted by scarry

And unnecessary.

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The only real reason for doing this is to get the cabin temp to a comfortable level for the pax, who usually insist on it. This takes forever at idle.
The only other reason I can think of is a poorly maintained air system for the brakes.

45 mins does seem excessive though. Having it running as they board has a placebo effect, more so if it's hot and the aircon gives them the perception of being cooler.

There is a huge noise difference between that generator in the utube thumbnail and a modern Honda or Yamaha.