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Originally Posted by pete c
Glad to here my BS meter doesn't have to go into the shop for calibration.
Even at 60 lbs or as much as 80, I think you are well within the window of calling it portable and would look real hard at setting it up that way. You could even sell some sort of tripod, or maybe quadpod with a small electric winch that could allow grandma to lift it out.
Being an air cooled single (it is a single, in'it?) I would think it would be kinda noisy. Is this the case? I suppose you could use some sort of noise cancellation through the stereo to combat it.
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Wow, another right-on response. It is a single and it is kinda noisy. Way back in a previous life I custom-designed and built expansion chambers, I built a huge muffler for a motor cycle chassis dyno, etc... so I wouldn't have though myself clueless about noise... but the first muffler I built for the POC was a disaster. Honda has my admiration (for their really quite generators) , as do NVH guys.
Amenities have not been the deal for the POC -- it is pretty much stuck together with chewing gum and popsicle sticks. So I just rubber mounted the whole rear subframe without giving real thought to it. How bad can the vibration be (?), I thought. Bad enough to cause intense bleeding of my backside in about 10 minutes. (Ok. I'm lying. But it was both noisy and shaky.) Now the motor-generator unit is mounted on isolation mounts within the subframe, and the vibration is fine. The noise was cut back dramatically be adding the original muffler to the end of my kluged one. But i'd like it to be quieter.
Active noise cancellation may be my fallback if I can't tame the noise more. Honda uses it, as you may know, with their variable displacement V6.
Thanks again,
Ken