On Sat, 26 May 2018 02:34:31 GMT, Johnny B Good wrote:

The XYL returned from a quick shopping foray this afternoon with the
latest magazine showing next week's offers which included a "Golden
Oldie" first seen two years back. Said Golden Oldie (the PGI 1200 A1),
presumably being priced for nostalgic reasons, is on 'offer' at the
original 129 quid price (their version of "Rollback Pricing" I'm
guessing).

After Mr Plowmans post on laser levels and this one I'm glad that
there isn't a Lidl where I normally go... Aldi is OK but doesn't have
the range of wallet threatening "big boys toys" that Lidl does. B-)

Both produce the same total sound power of 95dBW but the B2 claims to be
1.3dB quieter at the 1 metre SPL test distance (80.2dBA).

Hum those figures don't add up 95 dBW (aka 95 Lwa) is 87 dBA @ 1m or
70 dBA @ 7 m (7 m being the "industry standard distance" for
gensets). I think that's the same as the mower.

I have an open frame 2.2 kVA, non-invertor, diesel set, now that is
fing noisey, difficult to hold a conversation next to it noisey!
However it is electric start(*) and uses about a litre an hour. But
at about 60p/l less than petrol as it can use red diesel.

I've used a couple of Honda EU20is, linked, and they where really
quiet, audible but not overly so as reflected by the quoted 52dBA @
7m (89 Lwa).

(*) In theory so that SWMBO'd should be able to start it. Probably
never happen as it's also rather heavy even though it's mounted on a
4 wheel flatbed trolly. She'd never manage to pull start it far to
complicated a process. Release the compression, spin it up on the
cord, drop in the compression and hope it fires... I think your
suposed to be able to set the engine and compression release so that
one pull does the complete cycle and off it goes but if you get it
wrong and pull into compression it don't half jar your arm. B-)

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Cheers
Dave.