Lots of work has been done to Island Song including all new ground tackle, new exhaust, cleaning, sealing and a lot of 120volt work including new panels, circuits and now a storage box for the Generator.
The engine alternator is too small to charge the batteries well when away from the dock and we do like our mod cons so a marine generator is in our future, our richer future.
Our present is on a limited budget so we will have to make do with the generator we have. It is a noisy Honda 2000i. I know lots of people think they are quiet but not to me. I prefer solar panel quiet myself or at least as quiet as a proper marine gen and while the Honda is quiet compared to some it is no where near quiet enough for me.
I also want a storage box and I want to be able to run it in the pouring rain. Basically I want it all and I want it now...but this will have to do.
So here is the very first test run of the new Gen Box:
That is with about 7 amps. I said 10 but that was just a guess. A DB meter had it at 81 DB on the noisy end and less than 70 about 10ft from the front end. So it does make it much and the generator stayed so cool there was no need to measure that. I'll have to wait for a warm day to check it for cooling because with the 5c we have in this video there was no noticeable heating, in fact most of the generator was cool to the touch.
And here it is at idle:
That's all for now.
