Steve,
Nice touch !
Oliver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of VACList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: [VAC] Re: Small diesel generators
> Oliver-
>
> If you were really really good, you could go one step further and mount a
> gasoline powered Honda generator under the hood of the pull vehicle
> (obviously you need to consider the space issue); even further away from
the
> trailer and with a fuel supply tapped into the gas line from the pull
> vehicle.
>
> You could even have a auto start line back through the 7-pin connection to
> start the generator from the trailer....very tricky for those who think
> about these things.
>
> SteveC
> '69 Caravel in TC, Mich.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol and Oliver Filippi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of VACList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:01 PM
> Subject: [VAC] Small diesel generators
>
>
> > There has been some discussion of fuel for generators (propane,
gasoline,
> > diesel).
> >
> > In espousing the advantages of diesel, it seems to me you have all
ignored
> > the noise issue, especially if the diesel idles under light load.
> >
> > The diesel is a lot more difficult to silence, and is particularly prone
> to
> > "diesel knock" at low speeds and light loads.
> >
> > I don't believe the technology is commercially available to produce a
> > "quiet" diesel (but ought to be available in a few years.) Of course
> > there is always a big sound insulating box!
> >
> > The only quiet diesel I know of is the GM/Isuzu Duramax which uses new
> > computer controlled fuel injection and direct injection into the
> combustion
> > chamber. I would be surprised if GM/Isuzu has not patented the fuel
> > injection trick they use to virtually eliminate diesel knock. [ But then
> GM
> > did not keep it's Cadillac Northstar technology (which allows the engine
> to
> > run for miles without coolant) to itself.]
> >
> > The amazing quiet is the hallmark of the Honda portable gasoline unit.
> >
> > For what it's worth: Many years ago I asked an old Airstream dealer
(who
> > had equipped several boondocking safaris) why there was no generator in
> the
> > trailer. His answer was that the best place for a generator was in the
> tow
> > vehicle (not the trailer) so you could distance the generator from the
> > trailer to minimize noise, vibration and exhaust fumes. I think the
same
> > laws of physics still hold.
> >
> > Oliver Filippi
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