Having recently installed a Generac natural gas powered permanent generator,
and dreading the noise level it supposedly produces, I was extremely
surprised to find that they are not terribly noisy. Mine is rated ay 71 dB,
and sounds a bit louder than my central air, but nowhere near as loud as my
lawn or snow blower engines. My neighbors on one side about 200 feet away
also have the same exact unit, and I can never hear it running at all.

Smarty


"Pete C." wrote in message
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Banty wrote:

In article , Stormin Mormon
says...

You're right that running generators are fairly common during
power cuts. Still, I do try to be polite and not run mine past
sundown. Or 7 Pm whichever seems more appropriate.


Wonder how that works for you.... around here it gets dark at night

Truly, I need the sump powered whoever's sleeping (power outages have
this nasty
fact of being strongly associated with wet snow/rain events), and no one
around
here cuts the generator at night. Indeed, in some instances I've learned
of a
power outage in the wee hours waking up to generator music from a
neighbor.
With gratitude since that generally means mine needs to get started.

It puzzles me this thing about bothering neighbors since neighbors would
all be
expected to be pretty much in the same boat. Are we talking about some
particular problem of one neighbor (like, being located in a specifically
boggy
spot or on some utility spur). Or are we projecting irritations
regarding
generators in places like camping grounds with RV's?

Banty

It's not irritation at the noise of the generator, it's irritation at
freezing their asses off while their pipes freeze because they didn't
want to invest in one.

With the low cost of reasonable generators these days I think it's
pretty negligent not to have one, rather like smoke or CO detectors.