You'd leave the top uncovered with that design.

Take a look at the generator box I built for the honda EU1000i and 2000i series generators ( http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=36210 ) and maybe you can glean a few ideas. Let me know if you have any questions; I'd be glad to offer my experience and lack of wisdom. If you want to come...

Post burn report on the generator box! Good news and bad news: THE BAD. In my rush to leave, I FORGOT THE FUCKING FILTER. GODDAMNIT. After beating myself up for a few hours (and several shots of strong whiskey... and trying to barter with random participants walking down the street for a FRAM CA7640...

cahlm- I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how nice/quiet/reliable the Honda is in comparison other generators. Yamaha supposedly makes good inverter gensets, but I haven't seen too many or had any hands on experience with one. Also, your neighbors will unknowingly love you for your decision a...

The intake uses four AC muffin fans rated somewhere around 107cfm... not sure what their mmHG rating is. The intake filter is a large FRAM CA7640 which is used on large diesel engines, Dodge and Bobcat I think. The exhaust is a 9" baffled roof vent for a house. Everything was gorilla glued and screw...

I've been bringing an EU1000i (similar to the 2000, but vastly different from the 3000) since 2006. Overall, it's held up though conditions that would have ruined any other genset, though it hasn't been free of problems. My advice would be to install a fuel filter right after the gas tank as they ar...

I mainly just lurk on the eplaya, but goggles are a subject I can't help but chime in on! Most people who don't have good goggles suffer miserably. I suffered my first year when I didn't have a good pair, and I've seen many a first-year dig stinging boulders of playa dust out of their eyes during a ...

You lucky dog! I wish I had a valid reason to be on the early-arrivals list :( When is everybody else leaving? My group is taking off from Santa Cruz CA Sunday at 9:00. Accounting for our caravan's top speed of 55 and a couple of rest/fuel stops we should be home by 4:30am. I'm shivering with antici...

Little known fact: Abraham Lincoln was in fact a pirate. Pirates drink only two things: the blood of ninjas and rum.

If I had to drink beer it would probably be Guiness. It's pretty good out of the can. I'm bringing a case of PBR for the DPW parade though.

An INCH?!? http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Wolfietaj/Wolficons/jawdropper.gif Ay yi yi. As for the cold...Weather.com and NOAA forecasts lows in the mid-fifties. That's about the going rate. With the windchill, that probably means 40. I'm bringin' my comforter... In Soviet Russia, you do not ...

A few family friends will be traveling up there to deliver some crap later today I think. While it will be nice to get a playa weather report, I'm more interested in the condition of the playa floor itself. Hopefully it will be nice and packed. As for the cold I've found that old wool Soviet surplus...

To get back on topic, I haven't had any problems with the gate in previous years. They have asked and checked how well prepared we were, but our camp brings enough gear to survive the apocalypse so our preparedness was never questioned. As for your brother, I think a few of the posters (Geek?) had t...

E.g., my virgin brother should arrive fully prepared to endure endless 120 degree heat, torrential rainstorms, and nuclear warfare, without the slightest assistance from anyone else there. Harrumph! The playa is way more inhospitable than nuclear warfare; it's more like having a cluster-headache wh...

I attend the University of California. Coincidentally (or maybe not...) the semester conveniently begins a few weeks after Burning Man ends. I’ve caught a few of my professors with playa dust on their shoes at the beginning of the academic year.

Thanks for all of your helpful responses.

I guess I'll bring the materials to assemble a baffle so I can if there is a need.

Okay, I have a lot of ground to cover, so please bear with me. I guess I'll start with a little background information. This year will be my second at The Man, '05 being my first. I've got relatives who have been going since back when they still had the drive-by shooting range, so I've got all the a...