Dry Camping (alert)

[FloridaCliff]

I have a long hose that I use to guide the exhaust into nearby tents.  It's amazing how much quieter the campground is after a couple of days.

  LOL

Cliff

[Ednj]

No more worries, just install one of these on the exhaust = http://bladeyourride.com/index.html

[belfert]

The only thing you should ever hear from a generator exhaust is a whooshing sound and not a loud droning noise. Buy a real muffler and pipe it for minimum racket-Please?

I made an exhaust stack for my generator from Jack's design.  I used two five foot sections of 3" PVC pipe coupled together.

There was a terrible droning sound with just one section attached to the generator while I was attaching the second section of pipe.  Once the second section of pipe was on the droning was much less, but still there.  (I have no idea why I was attaching this with the generator running.)

How do I stop the droning?  The muffler for the generator is inside the generator enclosure.

[Hartley]

Brian,

What you will probably need is a silencer. They are a small diameter muffler looking item also known as a resonator. It takes the power pulses out of the exhaust which are the resonance factors that make all the droning noises.

You can get one for an Onan with a 1" pipe that can be hooked after your muffler.
I think they have 1" and 1 1/8" versions.

They were used with the older Onan 6.5 RV generators so are still available.
I had a 4-cylinder Gas Kohler that even with the best (toyota) car muffler was just too loud. I installed a resonator near the end of the exhaust pipe and the noise went completely away.

They work fine on diesels as well. You can see through them from end to end and they resemble a small version of a  bullet glasspack muffler. If you want to get fancy if you can find the resonator tip pipes for an older Volkswagen they work as well.

Dave...

[NewbeeMC9]

We JUST experienced a weekend of dry camping where a fellow bus nut right beside us that didn't adhere to this. He ran his gen set all day and into the evening (past dark) with his windows open and him GONE! Didn't make sense to me but since he was there before me, and he is sort of handicapped, I was polite in not saying what I SHOULD have said right away, hoping he would take the hint. That didn't happen nor did he take the hint when we moved our campsite straight ahead into an empty spot. It just ran and ran! So much the grass was black in an area about 5 foot from his bus.  ...


Oh and the guy had a fancy factory converted Prevost and while I was at dinner, describing this situation to another bus nut, he and his wife immediately knew who it was, as they TOO had the mis-fortune of parking next to the same guy in the past. They also said at that time when they brought it to his attention of the very bad running generator, his response was, it runs fine and needs nothing!

Go figure!

Rally host, I encourage you to please put a message in all newsletters/registration forms as a reminder to all people attending your rally get together, party etc. that MUST use their generator, to PLEASE install their UP-Stack before anything else! It won't only make an enjoyable weekend for everyone but keep them from getting sick as well. Yes we suffered ill feelings from the fumes and only realized after the fact what caused it!

Ace

Would have been a good time to have one of these
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95235

and send the exhaust back under his bus to his awning area

or maybe tater in the exhaust trick