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Originally Posted by Hogwild7
I bought a Honda 2200 this year and am super impressed with it. Quiet, efficient. But expensive.

I have both a Honda and Yamaha. The engineering on the Honda is space shuttle level. Honda calibrates the overload performance better than any company that I have seen. I would be very interested in seeing what they did with the 2200i. The Honda 3000i is the gold standard for performance and low sound level.

My Yamaha 3000iSEB has a battery boost feature that outperforms the Honda. The Yamaha is an old traditional motor/gen design that is very well implemented. I like the Yamaha but, if given the choice I would buy the Honda again.

My Honda is the 1000. It is over 10 years old and used for camping battery charging every season. The oil has never even darkened in it. I typically run the weekend with it and dump the oil. It only holds about a cup of oil. The first failure will be deterioration of the internal wire insulation. It is turning yellow now.

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If you want dependability, get a Honda 2200 inverter and if you want to run your AC, pair 2 of them together. They weigh less than 50 pounds and are very reliable.


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I bought the 900 W from Harbor Freight. About $120. I have used it for about ten years now during hunting season.Runs Heater fan, lights, Water pump, Phone Chargers,etc in my camper. Where we hunt there is no water So I use it to pump water out of a 55 gal barrel into a smaller stock tank with a small 120V pump. It is two cycle and starts every time.Great fro putting in the tractor bucket and working away from the shop. It looks like this one.

https://www.harborfreight.com/900-w...OJWlwhKeTLPHSRA38fXtlT5T1JRoC8vgQAvD_BwE

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Originally Posted by asheepdog
If you want dependability, get a Honda 2200 inverter and if you want to run your AC, pair 2 of them together. They weigh less than 50 pounds and are very reliable.
A 2000w will run most RV a/c's except for the startup. A while back we had a thread on Softstarts but I couldn't find it. It's a device that spreads out the startup power requirements and allows the a/c to start with a much lower power input. I don't know how they work but they're supposed to reduce the stress on the motors and make them last longer. An a/c requires more than double the running watts to start. A 15k btu will run on 1500 watts but takes over 3000 to start. The Softstart is supposed to get it started with only the running watts.

I read that there are 2 main brands: Softstart and Easystart. They both cost about the same, around $300, but the Easystart is considerably harder to install and program.


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