(Michael Sutton) :

What do you guys do? just set them up on the deck and
run the power cord inside?

aren't they too noisey? Or is this model that quiet?
you don't have any vibration?

-mike


Go ahead and pony up the extra cash for the 2000. You will not be
disappointed.

It is that quiet. I use my 1KW model at the cabin up north in the middle of
the woods, and sometimes while recharging my batteries I have to go outside
and around the back just to confirm that it did not run out of gas.

Earl Colby Pottinger

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Earl, if you pull the case apart so you can get to the bottom of the
internal gas tank, you can pull the hose off the tank (empty of
course) which has a plastic strainer plugged into the hose.

The hose widens to accomodate this strainer JUST RIGHT to put a 5/16"
hose barb to hose barb nylon adapter on it with a little clamp. The
red plastic 6-gallon outboard motor tank at West Marine with the
primer bulb and hose already affixed to it is 5/16" to fit on the
barb. Drill a small hole under the output power panel behind the
ON-OFF knob and run the Honda hose out of it and put on the 6-gallon
tank. The engine will run 12 hours per day for nearly a week before
filling. Prime it like you would a small outboard. THE HONDA HAS A
FUEL PUMP! They do this because the internal tank is lower at the
bottom than the carb bowl. It has a little diaphram pulse pump like
an outboard.

I use my EU1000i to power my music repair shop built into an old USAF
stepvan. It sits in a locked tool box stand bolted to the back doors
with holes cut out for the hot air outlet around the exhaust with an
intake slot cut under the genset and back by the AC outlet so the
genset doesn't get wet. Works great with the gas tank on it....MUCH
SAFER THAN FUELING A HOT GENSET!



On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 04:33:37 -0000, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

(Michael Sutton) :

What do you guys do? just set them up on the deck and
run the power cord inside?

aren't they too noisey? Or is this model that quiet?
you don't have any vibration?

-mike


Go ahead and pony up the extra cash for the 2000. You will not be
disappointed.

It is that quiet. I use my 1KW model at the cabin up north in the middle of
the woods, and sometimes while recharging my batteries I have to go outside
and around the back just to confirm that it did not run out of gas.

Earl Colby Pottinger

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Larry

Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.

..

It is that quiet. I use my 1KW model at the cabin up north in the middle of
the woods, and sometimes while recharging my batteries I have to go outside
and around the back just to confirm that it did not run out of gas.

wow. looking at the spec sheet it appears that it is on the lower 50's db
range on noise. I imagine that this would be even quiet if you put
a 'sound shield' around the generator to reflect the noise upward.


Why is it so expensive for a small generator?
(is it the Honda name or the quietness of it).

I know you can get other 'portable' generators for cheaper, but
of course they are noisier and not as compact, and don't
have a honda engine.

mike

Why is it so expensive for a small generator?
(is it the Honda name or the quietness of it).

I know you can get other 'portable' generators for cheaper, but
of course they are noisier and not as compact, and don't
have a honda engine.

The Honda is not a generator, but an engine driven inverter. (Ok, it is probably
a 12v generator with the inverter built in) Not sure of all of the electronics
involved, but it gives us the 125v under light load and at idle speed, ECO mode.
When we turn on the coffee pot, or the boat rafted to us, on our last trip,
turned on the hot water heater, it comes up to full speed until the heater kicks
off. For over two weeks we rafted and supplied the power for both boats until
they had their own delivered.. I have used several types of small generators in
the past and would not change the 2000i for any of them. I have run it in the
stern of the boat or when we are entertaining then place it up forward on deck.
The only thing I would change is having a way to extend the exhaust pipe upwards
several feet so we could set it down in the cockpit while running.

Leanne
S/V Fundy

Subject: HONDA EU1000i Generator on the hook


What do you guys do? just set them up on the deck and
run the power cord inside

Is the generator hooked to a ground? If there is a short on the boat from hot
does the generator case go hot with no path to ground.

Dennis

"Den73740" wrote in message
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Subject: HONDA EU1000i Generator on the hook


What do you guys do? just set them up on the deck and
run the power cord inside

We use a 30-20 A adapter and plug the 30 side to the shore power plug and then
use a commercial quality extension cord plugged into the 2000 and the female end
goes on the adapter. I can go 25 feet in any direction I have done this places
where shore power was not available.

Leanne
S/V Fundy