Harbor Freight/Honda smackdown....

RSD559 wrote:
How did this turn into a Honda Love-fest? I'm excited about the new Predator and hope and wish that they have a long and trouble free life. The more choices, the better, for everyone

I agree with all of that except for the love-fest part. I'll try to explain. I've had an eu2000i for over 10 years and have the whole time been incorrectly predicting that somebody would soon offer an equal or better generator at a lower price and the Honda price would have to come down. Over those years many promising models have come and gone, and when considering the whole package of noise, reliability, power quality, and surge capability, I've not seen one that equals the Honda eu-series. Maybe there's a new one out there now that will finally prove to be equal or beat the Honda. I'm just burned out from all of the false promises and false starts, and the Hondas still justifiably command a premium price (along with the same age-old Yamaha inverter models). Robin-Subaru generators look to be equal, and Kipor came close. Both of them have largely faded from the marketplace.