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I took my EU1000i to my buddy Geoff's Endeavour 35 sloop for an outing
and ran it on the bow for the weekend. Gave us great power and you
had to listen hard to see if it were running inside the V-berth.
Great power plant and I haven't been able to destroy it yet.

I emptied the little tank on it and fed the end of the hose from the
tank that has a built-in wider opening for the strainer out under the
electrical connections directly behind the on-off switch/valve through
a small hole the size of the small part of the hose. Did you know
this genset has a FUEL PUMP?! There's a little crankcase powered
diaphram pump because the bottom of the internal tank is LOWER than
the carb. It's self priming!

A double ended nylon hose barb fitting works great to attach the tank
end of the original OEM hose to a standard plastic 6-gallon outboard
gas tank, the kind sold by West Marine, the cheap one. The hose end
ID is the same as the gas tank hose that came on the tank. I strapped
the tank to the top of the big toolbox I cut out the ends of to house
the generator on my work stepvan on the van's back door. As all the
hot air and exhaust comes out one end of the genset, I cut the hole to
fit the louvers on that end and cut the other end with a slot lower
than the genset to keep the rain off it on the other end. It runs
just fine in this confined space with its own internal cooling fan.
Running 8-10 hours a day pulling a 5000 BTu Korean AC (5A run load),
the 6 gallon tank lasts about 6 workdays at this load, plus my 40 watt
vibrator compressor old little fridge that uses R-12 from Norcold and
some small loads. A little foam 1/2" thick glued to the inside of the
tool box and you can hardly hear it run, even under load.....(c;

The external tank eliminates those DANGEROUS gas fillings and
spillings on a hot genset with open fuel tanks.....not good. The
outboard tank is USCG approved, if that makes you feel less
guilty...(c;

My only wish is that I had bought the EU2000i for a little more
money.....brain wasn't engaged.

Mine has about 1200 hours on it running Mobile 1 synthetic oil 0-W40
weight. CHANGE OIL, even Mobile 1, every 50-60 hours or it'll cook
even Mobile 1 into glue. I get 3 fillings from a quart of oil, so
that's cheap to do, if a little messy.....

Larry, 3rd Mate Engineering
Amel Sharpi 41' ketch "Claire's Navie".....new used boat to play with
all summer!


On 18 Jun 2003 14:34:57 -0700, (Tim) wrote:

We're thinking of buying one of these generators to keep our house
batteries topped of while on the hook. We have a built in charger
that is normally powered by our shore-power connection. Is there any
problem with plugging-in our shorepower cord into this 1000 watt
generator? Any experiences/opinions welcome and appreciated!

Tim
S/V Hooligan


Larry W4CSC

"No, NO, Mr Spock! I said beam me down a WRENCH,
not a WENCH! KIRK OUT!"

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This is all good, cept for those non generator purists who complain about my
quiet , you can only hear the water splashing, 7.5 kw northern lite genny.

Sterling

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Tim,

Go ahead and pony up the extra cash for the 2000. You will not be
disappointed. Light, quiet, efficient. We run a 8000 btu A/C all
night down here in the Louisiana tropics in our aluminum cruiser (1965
insulation is nil). I got mine at:

http://www.planopower.com/store/honda_generator.shtml

These guys were very efficient and provided fast shipping. I just
checked the site and they are out of this gen until mid-August. Must
be because they are so good at selling them.

EDColeman

Putting the cruising back in rec.boats.cruising

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"E D Coleman" wrote in message
om...
Tim,

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

We bought our Eu2000i at www.Mayberrys.com/camping

The price is comparable and we had ours in less than a week, at our east coast
location.

Leanne
S/V Fundy

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(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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..

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

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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

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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

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"Den73740" wrote in message
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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

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On 7 Aug 2003 06:44:41 -0700, (Michael Sutton)
wrote:


What do you do if you want to use the internal tank again? do you have
a switch valve or do you have re-plumb the hoses?

I also have a Honda EX-5500 5.5KW power plant I bought for Hurricane
Hugo in 1989. I wanted to eliminate the tank filling nonsense on it
so I could use a siphon to regular jerry cans. What I did on that
that works great is a METAL fish tank air manifold.

The manifold common goes to the carb's fuel shutoff valve on the
original hose. Each valved "outlet" (in the air system), which can be
shutoff by turning its individual valves 90 degrees, goes to a fuel
source. There are two on this manifold I bought at a fish tank shop.
One goes through a hose to the original gas tank. Open this valve and
close the other valve and the genset runs just like it did off its
internal tank. The second valved spigot has about 6' of small hose on
it (fuel hose for chain saws tiny engines works great).

To use an external jerry can is real simple. Lay out the long hose on
the ground and open BOTH valves until the gas comes out the open hose
end, priming the hose without sucking gas in your mouth. Immediately
shut off the gas tank valve, and pinch the long hose 2' from its end
between your fingers. Drop the open end into any opening in the top
of the jerry can that sits on a box or chair or anything that will get
it HIGHER than the genset. My back steps works great. Release the
hose, and the siphon pumps gas through the long hose's fish tank valve
into the common manifold and into the carb. Crank the genset and
it'll run with a 4000 watt load for hours after hours. After the 5th
hour, simply go look at the fuel level on the outside of the red
plastic jerry can to see if it's getting empty. (Mine sits where I
can look out a window to see the level, with a flashlight at night.)
When the can is nearly empty, pinch off the fuel flow where the long
hose comes out of the jerry can top. Pull the hose out of the empty
jerry can and plunge it into the next full jerry can. Release the
hose and note how long you're running under this average load between
jerry cans. Adjust your fuel level inspection time accordingly. Fill
the empty jerry can at your leisure, when you're down to your last
can. Stop the genset once a day to check the oil level. My Honda
can't run low because it has an oil level alarm/automatic shutoff.
Hondas use ZERO oil between oil changes...both of them....

Every 4 days, change the oil if you're running them 24/7....about 100
hours.

How many jerry cans you gots? I got EIGHT!

WE WILL NEVER BE IN THE DARK FOR MONTHS AGAIN.......NEVER!
(Hurricane Hugo promise - September, 1989)

Stupid power company STILL hasn't buried the wires! Idiots.

The little genset is only used for the truck. I suppose a Y valve
could have been installed in the fuel line but isn't relative to my
application. I'm trying hard, to no avail so far, to wear it out so I
can go get a BIGGER Honda, probably the EU3000i this time. The
EU1000i runs 8-10 hours every day running the 5000 Btu Goldstar AC in
the truck....cool!




I know you use yours in a 'mounted configuration' where you prob
don't move it any, but do you have a disconnect between the generator
and the external tank so that they could be seperated for transport
in a normal car/truck ?

Larry

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