If you want quiet I would stay away from Generac. We had a 5K one for backup power for our house in Colorado. First time I fired it up for a test my neighbor from 1/2 mile away came down to ask me what was wrong. We've since used the Honda quiet generators in Quartzsite for several years and you can carry on a conversation within 5 feet of one. Biggest problem is you have to have several linked together for any higher power requirements but they are very quiet. (and stolen a lot.)
A friend of ours had a propane powered generator in his cab over. Didn't like it at all because it ran off the same tank as his heater and stove. Biggest problem with it was propane has less power per volume than gas. We use 320 watts of solar on our RV when camping out in the desert with an 3 cylinder diesel backup generator by Onan if the sun don't shine for a while. Runs off the diesel tank in the MH and seems to last forever. Fairly quiet too as it is a DC generator feeding a 8kw inverter. Only runs as fast as it needs to to supply enough DC for the inverter so you can tell by the sound of the engine when it's loafing along. I could probably figure a way to plug it into the house if we needed to in an emergency. (or just live in the motorhome for a while.) My choice would be to have some of everything, solar, wind and backup generator. Whether gas or diesel generator would depend on the ease of supply. A friend of mine has solar and a wind generator and I've seen it put out 35 amps but it can be scary in a high wind. Art KC7GF ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
