eu2000i

MM49 wrote:

NinerBikes wrote:

pnichols wrote:

NinerBikes wrote:
I can't speak for others, but the only thing my EU2000i won't run is my 13.5K Btu AC unit, a Dometic model. It will run easy start 11k units, as well as some of the smaller 8k or 9k Coleman polartec models.

My Eu2000i will run my microwave oven.

My Eu1000 won't run much of anything except lights, heater that burns propane, and the battery charger. Not even a hair dryer.

YMMV.

The Eu1000i is most sensitive to crappy gas laden with alcohol clogging it's jets and being a PIA to start and then start hunting or searching with fluctuating rpm's to maintain a load, due to the carb size and main jet size being the smallest. You have to load the gas you buy up with Seafoam and Techron and Blue Marine Sta-bil to keep the jets clean, and turn your gas over frequently, as well as drain the carb anytime you won't be using the /Eu1000i for more than a week.

This can mean more frequent carb tear downs, rebuilds, or flat out replacements. It keeps you broke and small gardener shops very busy sucking money out of your wallet to fix or repair, if you yourself are not mechanically inclined.

Hmmmm ... doesn't your commentary above leave one with the impression that the Honda 1000i has negatives connected with it relative to the Honda 2000i?? Sorry if I misinterpreted ... in that you actually meant that BOTH the 1000i and 2000i have the fuel sensitivity issue.

That's where I got my idea ... from you! :h

FWIW, my ancient but excellent running condition Honda EX650 has no trouble with any kind of gas I've ever thrown at it and this is even including sitting around for months/years at a time between uses ... and I suspect that it has a good old fashioned carburetor. Why are the new(er) Honda generators more finicky about their fuel condition? If that's the case, it sounds like regressive engineering on Honda's part.

Your assumption is that Honda makes the carburetor, they don't. Probably a Kehin or a Mikuni. Japan and Taiwan and the rest of the world are not running E-10 ethanol in their gasoline, to subsidize US corn farmers that are greasing the palms of politicians to grow more corn. Any time the govt subsidizes farmers, you get these problems, government creating markets, instead of leaving well enough alone, as ethanol is crappy fuel, period, and a crappy additive also. Ask anyone that's used ethanol for fuel in racing what it does to jets in carburetors if left in contact, it's an oxidizer. it destroys brass jets.

Niner. You just don't know what you are doing. The Honda Eu1000 just needs the pilot jet adjusted. The Eu1000 will run tank after tank of fuel without a burble when adjusted correctly.
MM49

Please be so kind as to do up a "how to" on adjustment of the pilot jet, with pictures. I am not much of one to tamper with original settings, mainly because mine can run rough at 800 ft above sea level, yet where I camp, usually 4000 -7000 feet in elevation, it runs fine. Can't have it run great at both locations without adjustments.