Hi Ryan, We have a lot of XW's installed and not one of them is what I would call loud. I would call the SW and SW Plus series loud. If it is simply that he is sensitive to noise I would recommend having a dead air space between whatever you layer the wall with. I built a recording studio for someone in another life and we used a very elaborate system of rubber "stand-offs" between layers of firewall to dampen sound. Just a though....
Daryl > I have a customer that we installed a Xantrex XW4548 on a Midnite > Epanel. He has 3kw of pv and 400ah of lead acid battery's. The issue is > he feels the inverter is to noisy. The inverter is hung in a garage on a > plywood wall that is 2 by 6 constructed with fiberglass and then drywall > on the house side. The XW is fairly noisy a lot louder then the SW or > SW+ series and a call to Xantrex got me a response that the transformer > needs about 30 days of cycling to seat the windings and it will quite > right down. So has any one else noticed the XW being extra loud? Has > anyone noticed the XW quite down after 30 days? And if this noise is > normal what would everyone recommend for a cushion to help keep the > noise out of the house? I had thought of a sheet of 1 inch foam and then > another layer of plywood but unsure if that would be worth the effort? > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: [email protected] > > Options & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
