One thing I know for sure is that all the gas mowers around me, the whine
from the deck is the worse noise. I'm not sure we can complain!
John Briese
>From: "Markus Lorch"
>To: "'Elec-trak list'"
>Subject: (ET) Mower deck noise level
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:53:46 -0400
>
>Hi all,
>
>on our electric tractors the components that produces
>the most noise is the mower deck. Up to now I assumed
>we couldn't do much better with the blade technology,
>maybe reduce some vibration and add some dampening, but
>nothing that would make a huge difference.
>
>Now the other day I walked by one of the big Toro mowers
>with a large deck up front and two decks to the sides.
>The diesel engine on it was reatively quiet (still the
>loudest component) but it seemed to me that, even though
>it has way more blades (9 total I think), the mower noise
>level was significantly lower than on our elec-traks.
>
>Now my question: Does anybody know what they do to achieve
>the lower noise level, is it mainly dampening? Is it the
>overall mower deck design? Is the electric Ox mower deck
>significantly quieter than the ET one? Anybody knows?
>
>Markus
>
>
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