Larry, This time your talking ****. Yes, the Chinese make generators that
are carbon copies of the Honda, but Honda does NOT buy them and relable
them. In point of fact they PROSECUTE the importers for patent violation.
There is a huge effort in Europe going on right now to eliminate these
patent violations. This is a very large problem in China, because this is
not a single company violating theses patents, but literally hundreds of
companies all independent of each other.
Steve

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Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
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They appear to be talking about EU 2000's.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)



These engines are just little one lunger, OHV 4-strokers. There's no
filter/pump/oil system. It's just a splash oil with the usual oil
grooves in appropriate places to maximize shareholder profits and wear
out at the end of the SHORT warrantee period so you can buy more.
They're no different than the cheap Chinese brands. As a matter of fact,
at one of our local auto parts stores, they sell some cheap Chinese
portable gensets because I live in hurricane country and Americans are
too stupid to force the power corporations to BURY the 1930 overhead wire
power system. There are TWO models there with these Chinese 11hp slant
single cylinder engines hooked to a 60 Hz, 2-pole alternator. The engine
is the EXACT same engine Honda uses on its EM5000X genset that sells for
a thousand dollars more money. The motor mounts Honda uses are not used
but the castings are exactly the same. The places on the casting where
HONDA and its numbers are stamped on the Honda gensets are simply
polished metal with no markings on them. The power switch, carb,
cylinder head, etc., are all identical. Honda buys them, stamps HONDA on
them and bolts on a different alternator and frame.

EU2000i has no oil pump. It does have a vacuum pulse diaphram fuel pump
like both my Honda gensets, a little plastic pump to meter the fuel
pressure to the float carb.