"Eisboch" wrote in
:

Does anyone have any knowledge, experience or input? I can't really
see anything wrong with it as long as it is stored properly and
obviously operated in the open, so it is well vented and ventilated. I
would not tie it's power into the boat's electrical system. I'd just
use an appropriately sized power cord (extension cord) and plug the
coffee maker directly into the generator.


Thanks,

Eisboch





I have the little sister to the 2000, the Honda EU1000i. It powered my
stepvan shop for a couple of years before I got a sweet deal on the
EU3000is, a much quieter, slower-turning, more powerful unit that runs
both 8000 Btu A/C units all summer, now.

The problem with portable generators on boats is Carbon Monoxide
poisoning from the heavier-than-air, hard-to-detect exhaust fumes
filling the hull and killing the stupid Darwin Award winners in their
sleep. If you keep the genset DOWNWIND with its exhaust outlet to lee
over the stern it should be fine....lots of them are used this way.

I use my EU1000 as a shop heater, running it INSIDE the truck in winter
to recover nearly 100% of the waste heat to warm the truck while
powering the shop. To do this, I welded a pipe nipple over the little
exhaust tube that sticks out where the warm cooling air exits the
cabinet. A coil of 1/2" copper tubing is attached to the pipe nipple
and snakes around behind some cabinets heating the air even more before
going through the deck plates to exhaust gas and condensate water out
under the truck. A similar system of using a welded on pipe nipple and
some lawn furniture tubing could make a gas stack to easily pipe the
exhaust fumes away from the cockpit on a yacht.

Skip uses an EU2000i to supplement his wind and solar power on Flying
Pig very successfully. These little Hondas run a LONG time on a little
fuel. Works great!

Be informed, however, that Honda parts and service rival Rolls Royce and
Maybach cars in price and labor costs. I have a Honda Reflex 250cc
plastic motor scooter, 1 cylinder, 1 throat carb. It died on me from
some dirt in its fuel clogging the jets, so the dealer says. To clean
the carb out and replace its V-belt variable speed drive...a simple V-
belt that looks like the power steering pump belt in an old car...is
$US649! Rolls Royce doesn't charge that much for V-belts!

Honda Generator parts and service are all similarly priced to my Honda
Scooter......VERY expensive.

The worry about the EU2000i in a boat is unfounded. When you shut down
the EU2000 by turning the "switch" off, it closes the fuel valve
automatically. If you then simply close the vent by moving the lever to
the closed position in the fuel filler cap, the entire fuel system is
now sealed for safe storage about anywhere....including the boat.