On Feb 1, 3:23*am, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 2/1/2011 1:19 AM, harry wrote:

On Feb 1, 1:51 am, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:24:39 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"

*wrote:
Hmm. Of course, we'd like to know why not. Against the local
neighborhood association rules?

* LKots of places the noise and fumes make use of a fuel-powered
generator impossible or impractical.

You can buy generators that are virtually silent.

I've seen some small generators that were easily carried by a top
handle and the things were so quiet because 25% of the darn thing
was a muffler/silencer. I had a muffler shop build an elaborate
muffler setup for a customer of mine who had a generator in the
basement of his home (good ventilation of course) and it was so
quiet outside that at full speed of 3600 rpm it sounded like a
luxury car at idle. Inside I could hear all the mechanical noises
of the engine and spinning generator whine. Sounds that you can't
hear over the exhaust note of a standard muffler for a genset like
it.

TDD

Honda makes some like that. Not cheap but really nice. I have seen
street muscians use them to power instruments, that's how quiet they
are.