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Old 01-25-2015, 01:41 PM   #17
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Took a look at the link, Open frame means it will likely be loud, OK for emergency power at home but I do not want to listen to one in an RV park. Yes, it does sport a TT-30 outlet "RV READY" clearly labeled 125 volt by the way.

I would rather see a fully enclosed uint, much quieter . or better yet an inverter model.

ONE WORD of caution on these open frame jobs.... Electrical SPIKES.

A few years back the ARRL (American Radio Relay League Inc) which is highly involved with thigns like EMERGENCY communications did a comparison of several generators, both Inverter types and open frame "Contractor" models...

All the inverter jobs they tried were clean and quiet

Some of the contractor's models were clean (none were quiet)

Some had spikes several hundred of volts high,, Kind of scary.
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