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#1 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Dos Condados Ranch Charlotte, Texas
Hunt In: Dos Condados Ranch and Everywhere I can!!
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I am wanting to quiet down a generator for camping. Wife wants to go camping and told her the only way I would do it is to take a A/C with us for the tents.
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#2 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Flower Mound, TX
Hunt In: Cottle County
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Long extension cords and put it over the hill.
Dig a hole and put the generator in the hole. Park the truck away from camp and put the generator on the other side of the truck with anything else that can deflect the sound. |
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#3 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North DFW
Hunt In: Thinking of taking up fishing.
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You can make a sound barrier out of some plywood and face the exhaust away.
Add a larger muffler. |
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#4 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
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2 or 4 stroke? I have had some luck retrofitting a small quiet car muffler to limit exhaust noise but the engine noise on a 2 stroke is substantial and not quieted any by a muffler.
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#5 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fulshear & Padre Is
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I put a small car muffler on a 4 stroke genny, made a huge difference
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#6 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: San Antonio hunt Medina/Atascosa
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We had a hunting camp generator that we built a plywood/shingle shroud around (still accessible for oil, gas, etc) and then built a 1/2" pipe adaptor from the exhaust tapping up about 15' off the ground and screwed the muffler back into the adapter...probably cut the noise to at least 1/3 of the previous level but not really practical for camping.
I googled "quiet generator mufflers" and found this along with some other links... http://www.jackssmallengines.com/strapmain.cfm |
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#7 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Tarkington Prairie, TX
Hunt In: Depends on the TPWD draw results!
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We built a 3 sided box with a roof to cover ours. Open side and exhaust facing away from you. Also, used a 100' heavy extension cord to carry the load. Worked real well year after year.
Of course you can buy a Honda and you'll have quiet. |
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#8 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Dos Condados Ranch Charlotte, Texas
Hunt In: Dos Condados Ranch and Everywhere I can!!
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This is a 4 stroke engine and I was thinking about the shroud and the plywood ideas but was wanting to see what else was out there.
Thanks guys!! |
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#9 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Jose, CA
Hunt In: CA, CO, OR, and TX
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Somehow adapt the output of your current muffler to the input of a larger one. Here's a link to building a "Swiss muffler" to quiet aircraft, maybe it would work too?
http://www.piteraq.dk/flight/muffler.html |
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#10 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jul 2007
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I saw one once that had an automobile muffler attached with a long pipe running straight up in the air, higher than the roof on the motor home and it was quiet.
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#11 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Spring
Hunt In: Wherever & Whenever
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Good thread!
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#12 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Stay in a motel.
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#13 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Houston
Hunt In: Victoria
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I can't believe nobody has stated the obvious yet:
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#14 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: South Dakota
Hunt In: Black Hills
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Brad PM me the dimensions of your generator and I will build you a muffling box to put it in this week at work. I'll bring it out to you in a couple weeks and you will be good to go. |
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#15 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Madisonville
Hunt In: Backyard
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http://www.kooleraire.com/kooleraire25.htm
portable ac unit. Fits on an icechest. Just need to figure out how to plug in the 12v cig adapter to something. (Park close!) |
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#16 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Madisonville
Hunt In: Backyard
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Sorry double post.
Last edited by kfd82; 06-20-2008 at 09:39 PM. Reason: posted twice |
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#17 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Madisonville
Hunt In: Backyard
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Just read on that site that one of those portable jump starters will rin it for 27 hours.
So if you already have one of those you are good to go! |
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#18 |
Four Point
Join Date: Sep 2007
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look at the honda genarators there really quiet you can have a normal conversation right buy it without yelling, or you can build like a wooden box for it. When you build it just leave the font of it off so once your finish you sound just has the top the back and the sides and have the front missing.
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#19 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Anna, TX
Hunt In: Atoka County OK
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check out Q link
quiet and designed after the hondas i picked up a new one for 3500w for 275 reg price is 550 some guy sells them new with electric start that cheap on craigslist |
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#20 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: May 2008
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Hunt In: Liberty Co.
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I agree with the long extension cord idea. It works.
Last edited by CastAndBlast; 06-21-2008 at 03:54 AM. |
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#21 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Springtown
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The shroud works well but instead of plywood I have used the insulation board (not real sure of the name) I had 3 sides and a top. Plus it's light wieght.
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#22 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Montgomery County
Hunt In: Where ever I can
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I tried one of the "super quite" ATV mufflers.............DID NOT work. 1st it didn't make much difference and most importantly it created so much back pressure that the blow by oil clogged the air filter and killed the generator at 3am.
I might try the car muffler though. |
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#23 |
Administrator
![]() Join Date: Jan 1998
Location: Sulphur Springs, TX
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If you build a box to fit around it, leave at least a foot from the generator to the walls for air flow. You don't want to overheat the generator, that would be expensive.
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#24 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: San Antonio
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honda..
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#25 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Springtown
Hunt In: Throckmorton County
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#26 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Montgomery, Texas
Hunt In: Wherever gracious invitations allow, South Africa and 160 ac. Huntsville, Tx.
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I was sucessful making one of the three sided covers(KEITH) using A/C duct board (KEEP).
I cut it and taped the parts so it would fold flat with metalic tape "hinges"and pinned the unit together with framing nails. When finished with it , I pull the nails out, fold it flat and stow it. This coupled with a 100' extention cord (CASTANDBLAST)made for a quiet , lightweight, compact storable cover. |
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