{"id":2521,"date":"2009-04-10T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2009-04-19T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T18:20:30","slug":"genset-sound-shields-good-or-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/genset-sound-shields-good-or-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Genset Sound Shields &#8211; Good or Bad Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we purchased  the Northern Lights genset for <em>Wind Horse<\/em> it was only available at the time with  a sound shield. Since we were paying for it we decided to give it a try.  However, a hidden salt water leak and less than robust latches convinced us to  leave off the side panels. We were not comfortable with having to remove the  side panels for routine inspection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2522\" title=\"injection_elbow\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/injection_elbow.jpg\" alt=\"injection_elbow\" width=\"576\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/injection_elbow.jpg 576w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/injection_elbow-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you think think  this a bit paranoid we offer the photo above and below as evidence. This is the  salt water injection elbow on the exhaust where it exits the manifold. That  crack &#8211; apparently typical with smaller Northern Lights units &#8211; is directly over  the generator forward end cooling vents. This makes it easy for the rusty salt  water to mess with the generator windings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2537\" title=\"injection_elbow-2\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/injection_elbow-2.jpg\" alt=\"injection_elbow-2\" width=\"576\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/injection_elbow-2.jpg 576w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/injection_elbow-2-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because our side  panels were off, the leak showed up right away, and we were able to protect the  vent openings until we could get a replacement injection elbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we purchased the Northern Lights genset for Wind Horse it was only available at the time with a sound <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/genset-sound-shields-good-or-bad-idea\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}