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Polk Crawler

10-07-2005 09:13:48




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On vacation saw and heard a very quiet Honda portable generator at a neighboring campsite.
On impulse bought a Coleman, B&S engine, rated at 1500 W; experience with a dead travel trailer battery influenced us to buy it. It is, compared to a Honda, NOISEY! Considering buying the smallest Honda generator made, know they are expensive but probably well worth the money.
Anyone out there had experience with generators of other makes that are quiet? Use around the home place noise is no problem but would like a quiet one for camping. Thanks. PC

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jdemaris

10-07-2005 18:09:10




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 Re: Portable generators in reply to Polk Crawler, 10-07-2005 09:13:48  
If your main concern is something light and quiet, it might behoove you to buy a low-price Chinese clone. The Chinese are making most of the high-end generators for Honda et. al. (but to Honda specs, of course) and have gotten smart and started making knock-offs. I recently bought a 1200 watt four-stroke overhead valve generator, and it is JUST as quiet as a Honda. They sell for $199. For that price you can buy two or three when compared to a Honda. One souce is at Ebay at: Link On the subject of inverter generators. The main idea is that they supply full-sinewave power, whereas most other generators don't. For your purposes, i.e. camping or running small tools, it should make little difference to you whether you have full sine-wave power or modified sine-wave power. The difference mainly shows up when trying to use the AC power to run a battery charger. Honda, Yamaha, and Coleman have inverter generators. They are very expensive. I had a Coleman inverter 1000 watt unit that came out before Honda or Yamaha had one, it was an absolute piece of junk. Nice idea, though. It would idle down very low and only rev up when power was needed - but crapped out after only being used a dozen times. I contacted Coleman, and they have NO parts for it and NO tech information. I couldn't even get a schematic for it. I used to like Coleman stuff -but no more. They suck!

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John51

10-07-2005 14:52:15




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 Try Yamaha in reply to Polk Crawler, 10-07-2005 09:13:48  
We use a small generator at our cabin. We chose the Yamaha because it was the quietest!



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BTDT

10-07-2005 12:28:22




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 Re: Portable generators in reply to Polk Crawler, 10-07-2005 09:13:48  
If you can find a Coleman Vantage 3500 generator you will be in business. I ran one in a campground for 6 years. When we were BSin' or running the TV or radio, you couldn't hear it. Had plenty of juice for what I needed. One 4 prong 240V-20A outlet, one 3 prong 120V-30A outlet and 2 three prong 110V-15A outlets. Plus it had a 12V battery charger on it. Don't know what one would cost now, but the $700 I spent at the time was well worth it.

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1945 A

10-07-2005 11:32:53




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 Re: Portable generators in reply to Polk Crawler, 10-07-2005 09:13:48  
I started off using a 3500 watt Onan powered by an 8 HP B&S engine, and that was really loud, and not big enough to do what I needed.
I now have a 5500 Watt Coleman powered by an 11 HP Tecumseh, does what I need, and is lots quieter than the 8 HP was.
Still, not sure if it would pass the noise test in a crowded area, since there are rules concerning noise.



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Coloken

10-07-2005 09:41:13




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 Re: Portable generators in reply to Polk Crawler, 10-07-2005 09:13:48  
Northern tool catalog list the noise level of units they sell. Think you can get a catalog from online. Their quietest Honda is 4500 watts and $2500.00 dollars. Cheapest quiet one, but not as quiet, is a 3000 watt at $1300.00 I have a 4500 watt with B&S engine that cost about $400.00 No way would or could I run it in a camp ground.
Kennyp



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Bob

10-07-2005 09:18:22




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 Re: Portable generators in reply to Polk Crawler, 10-07-2005 09:13:48  
Some of today's small QUIET generators actually generate DC, and then invert it to 60HZ AC.

That way, the engine has to run only as fast as is needed to carry the load, yet the frequency remains constant as the engine RPM's vary.



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