Howdy gang, I'm going to chime in this OT thread before it gets shut down. I live off grid ( past 7 years) watching over a very large and efficient summer "playtoy", for an eccentric fellow. We have used the 2000i's BIG bro, the Honda 6500 and now the 7000i. Both are very noisy generating 20db+ of wideband noise, well into vhf range. I have have tried some snap chokes, on th output without any joy, but may try one of the Jim Brown type filters.
I simply shut the genset off and use a battery when operating my k3/P3, which is a PITA. An off OT testimonial .... I ran an EU 6500i , 39000 hours nonstop (only to give it a fresh drink of Castrol syntec every 150-200 hours..) NEVER had the head off !! The last 10000 hours it burned abt a pint of castrol every other day. I finally replaced it with a pair of eu7000's before it quit on its own. I'm not sure if it was the synthetic oil or Honda engineering, but that was AMAZING. I will also add, it's a very good thing we bought 2 of the 7000i's, as they have been in and out the shop CONSTANTLY, JUNK in comparison. Any suggestions on having to beefing up the filter for the higher wattage genset? Sources for the ferrites? Sorry for hijacking the slightly OT thread 73 all Dean K2WW ______________________________________________________________ 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]
