Don't even get me started on the side-mounted gen sets. There's a reason
why those rattly whining pieces of junk are always mounted on the driver's
side of the RV and not the passenger (camping) side: If the generator was
mounted on the camping side then the owners of the RV would go mad from
the sound if they were outside. However, it is apparently okay to point
the thing at the neighbor's camp.

Just plain rude.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

On 11/4/2009 9:40 AM Loren Busch wrote:

> I've followed with interest this thread about small Honda generators (like
> th one I have and occasionally use) and find the comments interesting.
> Please don't confuse the small 1000w or even the 2000w Hondas with the
> monster gen sets often deployed outside (or built into) the 40 foot land
> yachts, there really is no comparison.  And in the case of charging the aux
> battery in a Vanagon, on the rare occasions I've used mine, it's been for
> about two hours every four or five days.  And it is quiet, just barley
> detectable a few feet away in the normal campground noises in the afternoon.
> And oh yeah, if I do find it to loud I just turn the stereo way up, can't
> hear the generator at all then!
>