Honda Generator Enclosure for Escape 21

Installation and operation of a generator enclosure for Honda eu2000i. It is a work in progress, and we plan on adding more vents, particularity to the bottom of the cabinet. Maybe a second fan as well. Lots of vents is the key - otherwise you can blow your self up, quite literally, or blow up the generator by overheating it.
I also have ordered fiberglass pipe insulated (rated to 1000 DEGF) to cut down on radiant heat from the exhaust pipe
Some Links:
Aluminum cargo rack (weight is important! Avoid cheap and heavy steel racks):
www.harborfrei...
Craftsman Tool Box:
www.lowes.com/...
Fiberglass pipe insulation (Grainger via eBay):
www.grainger.c...
StoveTop FireStop - note this is NOT an approved installation, as these are designed to extinguish stove fires. But I found them on eBay for cheap and why not?
stovetopfirest...
Muffler:
www.tractorsup...
Dynamat insulation (found cheap on eBay):
www.dynamat.com/
I may add fiberglass duct insulation (stiff) as well to the walls to deaden sound.
I am going back tomorrow to cut two 2.5" holes in the bottom and then rivet chicken wire over them for increased venting - and also to drain any water that might get in. Temperature leveled out at 115 DEGF on a 88 DEGF day. One problem is that the hot air exhausted from the left vent is sucked into the right vent. I may put a baffle behind the box to help reduce this.

[@RobertPlattBell]

Works great so far. With the additional holes in the bottom and the fiberglass pipe insulation on the exhaust pipe, the inside temperature is no more than 5-10 degrees more than ambient when running. Easy to use and quiet, too. Handy when you are loading groceries in the camper on a hot day. Just start the generator before you go into the grocery store and run the A/C (Note: Turn OFF all the breakers except the A/C and make sure the refrigerator is set to gas and the hot water heater is off). The eu2000i will run the A/C - just barely - and nothing else. Leave "ecothrottle" to "off" and set the A/C fan to high.
We've been on the road for three months now, but have only used the generator a handful of times, so far. It is cold in the Adirondacks!
Now, when we go to Florida, that might be a different story!

[@kevinswinyer3176]

@ Robert Bell, where were you camping at in the Adirondacks ? I am originally from Saranac Lake, about 12 minutes west of Lake Placid, deep in the heart of the Adirondacks..

[@RobertPlattBell]

@@kevinswinyer3176 Sorry to have missed you! We were camped for a while at the Lake Placid fire house! Met some nice folks from Montauk. Boy did they party!