Originally Posted by FishinRod
You will need a ventilated enclosure for your compressor. It will make some noise - and my wife hates "white noise" when she is trying to enjoy the peace and quiet of the great outdoors (interesting animal sounds excluded).

Is there a good place for you to set your enclosure away from the places where people sleep, eat with family, or just relax? If so, I would set the enclosure near an easy electrical connection that is handy for you to check in your normal routine, but away from "people". Running a few extra feet of polyethylene air pipeline is pretty darn cheap at current prices.

P.S. I believe esshup sells compressor systems and has installed many systems for his pond clients. I would definitely listen to his advice on this topic.


There are "sound kits" that are available from different mfg's for their enclosures to knock down the compressor noise. Vertex Aquatic Solutions has done dB testing on their systems with and without the sound kits installed. That's the only aeration mfg that I know of that has done that. The other thing about Vertex is that 99.9% of their products are made here in the USA.

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