"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in
message ...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when
the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Andrew Mawson"
saying something like:

For all the reasons you mention I have 'probably' settled on using
bog
standard 100mm rockwool retained by a custom made cage of wire
meshing. Both the radiator outward flowing air and the combustion
air
are currently ducted but the input air to the radiator is drawn
from
the totally open bottom of the trailer chassis. I will probably
enclose the bottom but leaving a largish entry port at the
alternator
end so that cool air is available for its cooling as well as the
radiator. Currently kicking ideas arround about what to do under
the
engine sump - I'll probably enclose it in sheet steel with rockwool
above, but incorporate a drip tray with a funnel shape leading to a
drain so any oil drips and fuel leaks don't accumulate in the
enclosure.

It's certainly going in the right direction; what size is the
enclosure
and what's it made of?

As I said, have a gander at how Aggreko and others do it; no point
in
re-inventing the wheel.
--
Dave
GS850x2 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Dave,

This is a twin axle trailer mounted Aggreko 100KVA set made towards
the end of the 1980's. Its is a steel box about 2.6m long, 1m wide and
1.3m high. The engine / alternator are close coulpled and mounted
directly on the chassis rails which are open to the world below. The
only concession to noise originally was 'anti drumming' tar paper 3mm
thick on the panels inner surfaces ! I intend to line the panels with
100mm rockwool retained by I'm not quite sure what !

Todays problem is the engine has started running far too fast. It's a
SIMMS injector pump, with the 'stop lever' controlled by solenoid, and
the throttle fixed by stops and it suddendly started running about 15%
fast, so if anyone knows about SIMMS pumps gen would be appreciated.

AWEM