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Cheap Genny
I noticed yesterday that my local Home Depot store has some little Honeywell generators on clearance… they had five of them for only $150, regularly I think they were something like $375.
According to the specs on the box they were rated for 2K continuous load.
Think they would be likely to be able to pull a 1200w HMI? Or is that just asking for trouble? I don’t know how much juice the HMI pulls when it strikes, but I know that is typically somewhat more then when they are running.
Also it said it was a “Silent” generator… usually with those li’l camping gennys the ones that claim to be “silent” are more in the 65 dBA-ish neighborhood… which of course is not truly silent by any stretch, but isn’t too bad either.
Thoughts?
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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You should get 2 of these if they are only $150 each, I’m on the phone right now to my HD right now looking for them.
Should be plenty for one 1200 hmi
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Just an update in case anyone else is looking for these…. you won’t find them.
I went by the store and got an admission of a temporary pricing screw up. The generators were supposed to have been marked $150 off but instead for a short time were marked as $150 as the price. Not sure if they sold any of them before the error was discovered.
I guess when a deal seems too good to be true, it usually is.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Still $299 is a great value for an inverter 2000 watt generator.
I think I’ll pick one up.Michael
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I picked up one of these and it is pretty quiet, I still need to put a load on it. I have an old open face 2k that I will try. It is a little bigger than a Honda and a little heavier. I called the only Home Depot in the south bay this morning and they had 10, by the time I got there they had 5 left. Thanks for the tip.
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Hey Mike…. so how quiet is “pretty quiet”?
Say… quiet enough for sound recording in a medium-quiet exterior setting with the generator 100′ or less away?
I’ve got miles of 10-gauge ballast cable, but my experience with voltage drop over distance (from mains) generally starts being occasionally troublesome at over 100′. A couple of weeks ago we had a 300′ run to the nearest mains powering a 1200w and 575w HMI, but did have trouble striking the bigger one. After it fired it ran fine, but took a couple of dozen attempted strikes to get it to catch. Obviously the closer I could get the generator, the better.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Quiet enough I’d say. 10 gauge is worth 30 amps so those cables will help fight the line loss.
Here is the specs to this unit. -
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I always thought you had to have a crystal controlled generator for HMIs.
The Hondas we rent are always crystal controlled. The problem is flicker – the voltage and hz is just not regulated on generators which have not been modified…. hence they are OK for tungsten/worklights… Look under the hood of any rental genny from a production supply or lighting house and you’ll see a crystal voltage regulator…JB
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