Frogwatch wrote:
I need to buy a small generator so i can run one power tool at a time
to rebuild my cabin in Wyoming. This means I need less than 2000
watts.
The higher cost models include Honda at over $800, Yamaha at about the
same and Honeywell at about $650 .
The cheaper models are less than $200 but are made in China.
I expect to rarely use this generator and it would never be needed for
emergency purposes.
The Honeywell at $650 is almost reasonable. The cheap Chinese
ones........................?
So, should I follow my own advice and not buy chinese because when
chinese goods break it always costs more money than the diff in
purchase price? Or, should I buy Chinese and gamble that it will work
long enough to be useful.?


Try Craigslist or a pawn shop?

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22g2000prx.googlegroups.com, says...

I need to buy a small generator so i can run one power tool at a time
to rebuild my cabin in Wyoming. This means I need less than 2000
watts.
The higher cost models include Honda at over $800, Yamaha at about the
same and Honeywell at about $650 .
The cheaper models are less than $200 but are made in China.
I expect to rarely use this generator and it would never be needed for
emergency purposes.
The Honeywell at $650 is almost reasonable. The cheap Chinese
ones........................?
So, should I follow my own advice and not buy chinese because when
chinese goods break it always costs more money than the diff in
purchase price? Or, should I buy Chinese and gamble that it will work
long enough to be useful.?

Don't make the mistake of buying the smallest generator you can find.
Pretty soon you will find out that you want to run a couple of things on
the generator and you can't.

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says...

In article 61739c51-20c6-4c1b-8231-f1745e9eaf9d@
22g2000prx.googlegroups.com, says...

I need to buy a small generator so i can run one power tool at a time
to rebuild my cabin in Wyoming. This means I need less than 2000
watts.
The higher cost models include Honda at over $800, Yamaha at about the
same and Honeywell at about $650 .
The cheaper models are less than $200 but are made in China.
I expect to rarely use this generator and it would never be needed for
emergency purposes.
The Honeywell at $650 is almost reasonable. The cheap Chinese
ones........................?
So, should I follow my own advice and not buy chinese because when
chinese goods break it always costs more money than the diff in
purchase price? Or, should I buy Chinese and gamble that it will work
long enough to be useful.?

Don't make the mistake of buying the smallest generator you can find.
Pretty soon you will find out that you want to run a couple of things on
the generator and you can't.

I would definitely go for a 2000 if I could... The Honda is still pretty
light and transportable in the 2K model. You can still stick it in the
back seat of a small car if you need to.

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On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:43:05 -0400, BAR wrote:

Don't make the mistake of buying the smallest generator you can find.
Pretty soon you will find out that you want to run a couple of things on
the generator and you can't.

That's good advice but too large is a bad idea also. Ideally for the
type of light usage you describe, you'd like to be able to lift it in
and out of the back of a truck by yourself.

And then there's the inverter alternative that Tim mentioned, powered
by your car/truck battery for relatively short periods of time. The
price of inverters has come way down in the last year or two. I'd
vote for a sine wave model with lots of reserve capacity. Your tools
will be much happier on sine wave power and if you get one big enough,
your wife will be able to run her hair drier from it. Hint. :-)

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:11:44 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

Your tools
will be much happier on sine wave power and if you get one big enough,
your wife will be able to run her hair drier from it. Hint. :-)

Does an AC/DC motor care that much about the wave form?

Casady

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:18:29 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

Your tools
will be much happier on sine wave power and if you get one big enough,
your wife will be able to run her hair drier from it. Hint. :-)

Does an AC/DC motor care that much about the wave form?

They sure do. I've owned several so called "modified sine wave"
inverters in the past. Some tools refuse to start at all, others run
sluggishly with reduced power and increased heat.

Not related to motors, but we've had some appliances with digital
controls that refused to operate at all on MSW inverters..