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Larry

Skip Gundlach wrote in news:2bc24fb4-bb92-48f5-
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Given that its prime purpose was to power the Air Conditioning,
which we also made a value judgment to remove, the space
available in the ER was far more important to us than being able
to run more stuff.

Having been on your boat in the heat at the Megadock, I can attest to
removing both being two big mistakes unless you're going to be rafted up to
Roger in Maine all summer....Even then the sound of diesel is EASILY offset
by the sweating on a hot summer day...

A quiet cabinet genset will easily fit where the monster batteries are
corroding away as I type. Next makes one you can hardly hear run that will
put out 8KW for a little oil. When you put the cover on it, it's like it
was outside. It's a Kubota garden tractor diesel that's way underrated to
last for decades. I know where there's one with 9500 hours on it and it
doesn't even consume 2 oz of lube oil between changes in a hundred hours!

"Is that your bilge pump running?", they ask. "No, that's the diesel
genset." It's that quiet.