05-14-2016, 01:39 PM
This is sort of a continuation of this thread but wasn't directly correlated to most of the posts to warrant taking that thread off life support: http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21011&whichpage=3
Now that I have the hooking-the-generator-to-the-entire-house problem solved, with hurricane season around the corner I want to address the other problem: generator noise.
I was planning on making a small concrete slab for the generator to sit on when it's hooked up to the house. Besides keeping the chickens from kicking gravel under it and restricting air flow (has actually been a problem) I can embed steel eyelets into the concrete to give me anchor points to lock it down and take more effort and time to steal.
After Iselle I used cinder blocks (we have many from a failed agriculture experiment) to try and wall off the generator to reduce the noise but I was afraid to enclose it too much for fear of making it too hot. Now that I'm considering a permanent slab my mind is wandering to ideas of a permanent generator hut next to the house and what it might look like and how it would function. Then I thought, I'm probably not reinventing the wheel here.... what ideas or implementations have you seen?
Now that I have the hooking-the-generator-to-the-entire-house problem solved, with hurricane season around the corner I want to address the other problem: generator noise.
I was planning on making a small concrete slab for the generator to sit on when it's hooked up to the house. Besides keeping the chickens from kicking gravel under it and restricting air flow (has actually been a problem) I can embed steel eyelets into the concrete to give me anchor points to lock it down and take more effort and time to steal.
After Iselle I used cinder blocks (we have many from a failed agriculture experiment) to try and wall off the generator to reduce the noise but I was afraid to enclose it too much for fear of making it too hot. Now that I'm considering a permanent slab my mind is wandering to ideas of a permanent generator hut next to the house and what it might look like and how it would function. Then I thought, I'm probably not reinventing the wheel here.... what ideas or implementations have you seen?