Can I use this generator without being thumped?

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toying with the idea of dragging this thing out the garage and using it when we're at the Folly Reach pontoons but having never used a genny on the boat before, is it suitable from the DB specification listed or will it royally cheese off every boater with a mile radious?

also, not really sure how we'd put it to use other than to save using the batteries to boil a kettle.... maybe it's best left in the garage, sitting there doing bugga all as it has done for the last 4 years?

Briggs and Stratton BSQ1000
 
oGaryo said:
toying with the idea of dragging this thing out the garage and using it when we're at the Folly Reach pontoons but having never used a genny on the boat before, is it suitable from the DB specification listed or will it royally cheese off every boater with a mile radious?

also, not really sure how we'd put it to use other than to save using the batteries to boil a kettle.... maybe it's best left in the garage, sitting there doing bugga all as it has done for the last 4 years?

Briggs and Stratton BSQ1000
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it will not boil a normal household kettle as they are normally rated 2200<3000kw.
it will run a drill or similar
 
ours used to run a TV/DVD. Depends on the other users on the pontoons if you get complaints, best to ask those there & new arrivals do you mind, say if you do at any point.

Mind up a river moored to bits of pontoon moved there for the winter, asked the new arriver & he said, no problem. Then he started his generator, the sound was like concorde taking off ! We found ours very usefull in the winter, helping out the webespatcher.
 
We bring our little Honda out in winter, It keeps the Weberspatcher going, the TV and charges batteries and phones.

It wont make hot water or run a microwave though, wrong sort of lectrickery.

If you can boil a kettle from your batteries, the generator will charge them back up.

We find that high speed gas is a much better way of providing cooking heat. so no restrictions.
 
hlb said:
We bring our little Honda out in winter, It keeps the Weberspatcher going, the TV and charges batteries and phones.

It wont make hot water or run a microwave though, wrong sort of lectrickery.

If you can boil a kettle from your batteries, the generator will charge them back up.

We find that high speed gas is a much better way of providing cooking heat. so no restrictions.
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yes, we are related
 
hlb said:
We bring our little Honda out in winter, It keeps the Weberspatcher going, the TV and charges batteries and phones.

It wont make hot water or run a microwave though, wrong sort of lectrickery.

If you can boil a kettle from your batteries, the generator will charge them back up.

We find that high speed gas is a much better way of providing cooking heat. so no restrictions.
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Most Honda's produce a pure sine wave so they should run anything up to the rating. Microwaves, immersion heaters and kettles are all normally above 1000 watts, which is why many people get the 2kw version.

Having said that I have a 1000w Kipor and it runs my 1000w immersion, and I have a special little 2 cup kettle that is only 800w, so it runs that as well.

If you use your microwave on its lowest setting you might just about run it from a 1kw genny. My 800w microwave draws around 1400w. Haven't tested it on its 600w setting.
 
Kettles can have a peak current draw on start up - I've just bought a 3KW suitcase genny by Hyundai as a stop gap until I decide what to do with the knackered panda, a subject of of an earlier thread.

If I put the kettle on when the genny has first started it stalls it :-)

Leave it a minute or 2 and its fine but you can hear it struggling. My kettle is rated 2400w. Expensive cup of tea!
 
Morpheous said:
Kettles can have a peak current draw on start up - I've just bought a 3KW suitcase genny by Hyundai as a stop gap until I decide what to do with the knackered panda, a subject of of an earlier thread.

If I put the kettle on when the genny has first started it stalls it :-)

Leave it a minute or 2 and its fine but you can hear it struggling. My kettle is rated 2400w. Expensive cup of tea!
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Funny - I have a Honda 4ish KVA (IIRC) and had it running the house one day, three fridges, 3freezers, a few lights, TV, Sky box (all essentials I hear you cry) and the CH pump (oil) was running. All was fine until FIL turned on the elec. kettle and it still didn't stall the genny - just blew a fuse in one end of the plug that I was using (yes - I know..... :eek: ) when the kettle was coming to the boil. I thought it would have been when it was fired up but this was at the other end of the cycle.....
 
Our little Kippor 2KV will heat our hot water fine and run the 1kw kettle. Just not at the same time! Like others, we only use the genny for heating some water and topping up the batts and for fairly short periods. Without shorepower available we boil kettles and cook using gas. We tend to favour mooring buoys when we cant get shorepower as you are that bit further away from everyone and thus the noise is less of an issue - though we always try to be considerate.
 
63 dBA @ 7m. My, how coy they are about quoting what the sound level will be at 1 meter distance. And you are at 1m distance....


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It's going to about 79.8 dbA - which is the same as standing at the side of a busy road :)
 
i would'nt mind you running a genny near me.
so long as you don't mind me putting a pipe on the end of the exhaust and the other end in your cockpit....




only kidding.....
 
The hyundai figures were a bit naughty - advert said 56dB, big sticker on it says 88. Thats a lot different.

I run it in the locker that housed the Panda and have connected it up to the panda's exhaust which is underwater. With the lid shut its fine - but the thernal cut out kicks just after the kettle boils. I can open the lid and then its very noisy.

I'm in the process of fitting an extractor fan in to force the locker to vent faster.
 
Gary,

As others have said, use your domestic battery(ies) through an inverter to run the kettle, and the gennie to top up the batts. You might need more than 1 battery though. I am in the process of adding 2x110ah to Rafiki. She already has a 2.5kW inverter that runs the battery down quite nicely.

Rafiki is all electric, from a safety perspective.
 
I wouldn't bother for your size boat considering the weight and space onboard. I have a similar size boat and just use the gas and single battery (100amp). It is usually good for one night at least and I think it just as easy to run the engine for a while to charge up the battery (a little) if need be. I am also conservative with the battery drain such as led lights etc.

I also have a solar panel to trickle charge the battery, this is for when I am not on the boat. A few years ago I found that I didn't run the boat engine long enough to fully charge the batteries, hence a week on the solar improved things.

The other week in Yarmouth, I watch this yacht pull out a portable generator next to me and my heart sank, but it turned I didn't even notice it. So if yours is whisper quiet your probably be okay, but nothing more annoying than hearing an engine running for hours.
 
cheers guys, I think I'll leave it in the garage until I find a better use for it or it finds its way on to ebay... seemed a good idea at the time to own one but it's never really been used apart from a fishing trip in France 4 years ago.. c'est la vie
 
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