Steve Weinstein wrote: > Just out of curiosity, Phil, what are you replacing it with? And what kind > of boat was she installed in.
The replacement genny will be an Entec 4.2kw unit. The choice is driven by the fact that generating unit is water cooled so the sound shield does not require cooling venting and the sound shield seems particularly well engineered. Oh, and it fits in the space available. The boat is a Tayana 52 center cockpit cutter. While the boat is largish, she has a comparatively small engine space comprised basically of the space under the cockpit sole. Into this space is crammed the propulsion engine, the generator, the refrigeration compressor, and a watermaker. I'm disposing of the watermaker and putting in a smaller genny to get more space. I'll also try to improve the spaces sound proofing which is pretty minimal. > I'm asking specifically 'cause I was curious about the noise level at night > in a mooring field or anchorage. Did you get any complaints from neighbors? Noise is the primary reason for the change. The old Westerbeast had no sound shielding at all and was unpleasantly loud. You had to be REALLY tired to be able to sleep in the aft cabin when the thing was running. Rum helped. Don't know if it was objectionable to other people. I probably couldn't hear them if they did complain. The only thing I have to have a genny to do is run AC when anchored so quiet is nice. The Entec genny's output is also sufficient to create the maximum output from my inverter\charger (140A @ 12V) so it will charge batteries well. What's more, if you screw up and really flatten the batteries, the Entec can be started by hand. Philip _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
