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Recently purchased a Yamaha 2000W

Same specs as the Honda but I like the look better. Bought it for the house and emergency or field use and have it set up for tri-fuel (gasoline, propane and natural gas)

It's not quiet and it has the same DB rating as the Honda. I was taken in by the 'Can't hear it' comments but Yes You Can, easily from 50 feet. We set ours up to put on our rooftop sun deck as we can't hear it in the house but you can hear it from outside. I'm looking for a way to make it quiet. Don't want the neighbors asking to borrow some amps if the power goes out for more than 3 or 4 hours. Don't want to tell them NO either.

The generator on 'Tropical Dance' is quiet. From 50' all you can hear is a bit of glub-glub from the underwater exhaust. Really not bad at all except for inside the boat. There it's noisy so we don't like to run it except to charge the batteries while at anchor during the day.

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