Choosing a Inverter Generators
If I should post this elsewhere, just let me know.
So my $100 1000 watt Chinese loud smokey piece of ****, without an inverter of course, finally gave out on me yesterday when I pulled it out just to run it to make sure it still worked. After messing with it for about 15 minutes I gave it to some Mexicans in our park for free.
Before everyone just says spend $1000 on a Honda or Yamaha, we have two 100 watt solar panels and two deep cycle 6V batteries and that was sufficient for months of boondocking. We basically just use the generator as an emergency backup to charge the batteries. With the way we live we get three days on full batteries with no sun and one good sun day can charge them fully. I think I used the generator 3 times and my dad who gave it to me used to use it to run the Christmas lights on his boat for the Christmas parade and that was the extent of the use.
However I usually like to upgrade each time I replace something so I've been looking at some of these inverter generators. I can get one the same size 1000 watt for like $200 so it'll be quieter and what not and some of the 2000 watt ones you can hook together for like $450. I really only need the 1000 watt one but I kind of want the 2000 watt so I can run the whole trailer and could get another and daisy chain them to run my A/C if needed.
Anyways I'm really open to ya'lls opinion on what I should choose.
So my $100 1000 watt Chinese loud smokey piece of ****, without an inverter of course, finally gave out on me yesterday when I pulled it out just to run it to make sure it still worked. After messing with it for about 15 minutes I gave it to some Mexicans in our park for free.
Before everyone just says spend $1000 on a Honda or Yamaha, we have two 100 watt solar panels and two deep cycle 6V batteries and that was sufficient for months of boondocking. We basically just use the generator as an emergency backup to charge the batteries. With the way we live we get three days on full batteries with no sun and one good sun day can charge them fully. I think I used the generator 3 times and my dad who gave it to me used to use it to run the Christmas lights on his boat for the Christmas parade and that was the extent of the use.
However I usually like to upgrade each time I replace something so I've been looking at some of these inverter generators. I can get one the same size 1000 watt for like $200 so it'll be quieter and what not and some of the 2000 watt ones you can hook together for like $450. I really only need the 1000 watt one but I kind of want the 2000 watt so I can run the whole trailer and could get another and daisy chain them to run my A/C if needed.
Anyways I'm really open to ya'lls opinion on what I should choose.
