Trying to keep my cool while staying cool.

[sfish]

We are going to my parents lake home with the Monty this 4th of July weekend.They live in a nice neighborhood and the the question I have is there any way to dampen the sound of my 2 Honda 2000 iu companion generators? Last year we tried it and the next door neighbor offered his power outlet in the garage to us and we took him up on his offer and had to reset his breaker in the garage twice during the weekend. My brother later informed me the neighbors didn't want to listen to the gennys running all weekend and have already offered the outlet to my dad for us to use this time.It is going to be very warm this weekend and I am also concerned about an a/c blackout.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Ozz]

Can't think of any way without compromising the cooling (air circulation) of the generators, and wouldn't add any noise suppression on the exhaust either.
Maybe relocating the generators and running a heavy gage cord to the trailer.
Or
Keep your Pappy out of trouble and take the guy up on the outlet. Maybe get him a gift cert. for dinner at Chili's...

[HOOK]

Buy a cheater and run a heavy drop to another outlet , use only one AC.

[Art-n-Marge]

Even most house outlets are only 15 amps. If you are lucky maybe there's a 20 amp. But this MIGHT only run one A/C with nothing else on (per your breaker reset comments)!

You definitely won't be running two A/Cs.

Good luck with this one.

[helmick]

Run your water heater and the frigerator on propane.
That will help you have more amps for A/C.

[snfexpress]

We just did this for 9 days and had no problems. We went to the hardware store and purchased a 50 amp receptacle. With 10 gauge wire we wired two household plugs into the receptacle - 1 for each leg. We tied the neutrals and the grounds together. We plugged our device into one outlet in the garage and with a heavy duty extension cord plugged into another 20 amp outlet on a different circuit. With our meters we watched our amperage usage and didn't trip any breakers.

The white label on one of the plugs is to let me know what leg goes to what meter.

[sfish]

Thanks for all the great advice!

Steve

[bigmurf]

How about some foam board like they use on houses? Put it around 3 sides and about 2ft to allow some air to move. You could put the Hondas under your awning so you could see what your neighbors are getting.