Yamaha generator interference

[walleye-]

Ok so I bought a new Yamaha ef2000is generator this year and am having interference problems. If I turn up gain on the vex I get same looking interference that would happen if you were next to another. The ir does not get rid of it. I had an older Yamaha that never had this problem. Buddy has a Honda which I plugged in to my house the other day and everything cleared up. Plug mine into his house and he has interference. So I went back to Yamaha dealer and explained issues and he let me take a new 2016 home to try. Same problem. Anyone else have a Yamaha generator and have problems. ??  Any ideas on how to filter out the bad noise/signal. Can't believe I'm the only one with this problem. 

[fivebucks]

Isn't there a spark plug that depresses interference?  I seen to think there is but maybe that is for autos or something.

[walleye-]

Yes it has a resistor plug in it. I replaced that with another one hoping it was bad but still the same. 

[fivebucks]

That's all that my little brain could come up with - good luck.

[delcecchi]

2 hours ago, fivebucks said:

That's all that my little brain could come up with - good luck.

Are they the "inverter" type generators?  The honda is, and maybe the yamaha is too.  Maybe there is something about the inverter design that messes up a Vex.   Anything else having issues? 

The vex runs off a battery, right?  Very strange. 

[walleye-]

Yes the vexilars are on there own with the battery in the vex case not hooked up to fish house power. Also I recently noticed that my Aqua vu won't work on tv with rca jack anymore. So I tested that with a older Yamaha generator last night and it works with that one. I ordered some filters for the extension cord so maybe that might filter out the noise. I did see a post for 2013 with same issues. Any ideas out there I would like to here them.  

[Todd Caswell]

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 Any ideas out there I would like to here them.  

I have a few tips, you probably aren't going to like them but you asked. 

 

1. If you know you have a problem with this don't plant your house on wheels next to a guy in a portable that wants to enjoy the evening without interference. 

 

2. I now there quiet but again don't run your cord out so YOU can't hear it but everyone around you still can..

 

3. Try going back to the basics and fishing without ELEC. for a couple hours and you might find a piece of mind with the relaxing quietness that it provides.  

 

 

[walleye-]

Well than.... Thx for the tips. I do most of my fishing from a portable but most weekends the kids and wife come with and we go for the weekend. I work long hours in the summer and don't get to do much so we enjoy spending the winter weekends together in the yetti. I very rarely fish next to others. My extension cord is only 25 feet long and generator sits in truck. Sorry u don't like wheelhouses. Thx for the tips though. 

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

My Yamaha is probably about a 2010 and I've never had any sort of interference caused by it. I've had all 3 brands of flashers in my house. They must have changed something on the newer ones. 

Some cheap Chinese LED bulbs, on the other hand, messed up my TV signal and took awhile to track down! 

[Boar]

On 2/17/2016 at 8:18 PM, Todd Caswell said:

I have a few tips, you probably aren't going to like them but you asked. 

 

1. If you know you have a problem with this don't plant your house on wheels next to a guy in a portable that wants to enjoy the evening without interference. 

 

2. I now there quiet but again don't run your cord out so YOU can't hear it but everyone around you still can..

 

3. Try going back to the basics and fishing without ELEC. for a couple hours and you might find a piece of mind with the relaxing quietness that it provides.  

 

 

ya know, i read this with interest because im interested in a yamaha. i currently have honda. dont tread on those for the choices they make to enjoy the outdoors, those tips have nuthing todo with topic at hand, and he didntask for hated opinions on generators on ice. heres a tip, if someone plants a wheel house next to you.and u dont like it. Leave. really unbecoming of a moderator.

now based on the info.given im.wondering about making that purchase, i hope to hear more on this. i have.never heard ofinterference from a genny on a vex,.what about other flashers, this is really odd.

[delcecchi]

We should all try to be considerate of those around us.   I still remember the guy who showed up at a campsite near us with a Jukebox in the back of his pickup.   Turned it on and it ran all night.   That was in Wisconsin.... I think he slept on the picnic table... 

But yeah if I were fishing in a porty and some doof pulled up with his wheelhouse and set his generator next to my porty, I would be sort of irritated.   I bet you would too.   Now, if he is there first and running his generator then I haven't got much right to complain (although if it is one of those cheap loud generators...)

But to get back on topic, I can't figure out why the generator should be putting out so much noise that it hashes the vex.  Bad shield on the cable to the transducer?  

I wonder what Vex has to say about what might be going on.

Edited February 22, 2016 by delcecchi

[walleye-]

I bought This filter and wired it into the extension cord and it pretty much solved my problem. There is minimal interferance now. 

[Boar]

so what do you do with that??? wire it where or how?

[walleye-]

I wired it into my extension cord.  But that was to just see if it would work. Now I'll be wiring it onto the power going into the converter. It is basically a inline filter. There are studs on both ends. 

Edited February 22, 2016 by walleye-

[Tom7227]

What is a converter?  I've heard of generators.  I've heard of inverters.  But a converter sounds to me like a missionary on his way to Africa.

 

[Ufatz]

Last I heard they had eaten most of the converters sent to Africa:...especially the more plump Baptists. I've heard they generally consider Methodists too chewy and  Catholics too bony and hard to swallow.

I confess I have ..used all sizes of Honda and Yamaha generators and some with inverters  but I too am puzzled by the "converter" terminology.  Are they perhaps discussing some sort of  transformer function.

[walleye-]

A converter takes 120-volt shore power and turns it into 12-volt power, which is then used to charge your battery bank, and used to power the 12-volt appliances and lights in your fish house. Most all wheelhouses now days have them. 

[delcecchi]

That's interesting.  I would have thought that most of the stuff runs off 110. 

So the noise is radiated or somehow isn't filtered out by the converter or battery.   Is the vex connected to the 12 volt house power?  Or is it running off its own battery?