Honda 2000 12 volt reset

Like most OEM's repair parts are a huge augmentation to corporate bottom line profits.

Buy a 2015 Chevy pickup piece by piece and it'll cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And also exactly like other OEM's, the manufacturer KNOWS how long a part is going to last. ONAN is one of the biggest offenders, using hare-brained design, unique, incredibly overpriced parts. This is why for stand-alone use I chose Kubota and Kato.

Honda is great until things go wrong. My Yamaha diesel had so many adaptations and work-arounds it wasn't funny. Seventeen dollars for a cigar thickness three inch fuel filter paper element convinced me of that. In went a Racor.

I would yank the garbage Honda breaker and replace it with a standard push button reset 250V breaker.

Sounds like the circuit would be useful for equalization and top charging at no greater than 110 amp hours and no less than 90 amp hours.

Those rare-earth magnets start the excitation process. Brushless alternators are HARD to get excitation without major modifications. That's why brushless Niehoff alternators, and the 25 and 30 SI Delco alternators are not well liked. Niehoff, BTW is another company that needs psychiatric help in the automotive alternator design dept. Astronomical prices for repair parts and zero alternative parts sourced. Their big alternators are OK until you go to repair one.

eu2000i alternator parts diagram

Looking at the parts diagram I believe it's evident that there are no electrical connections to the rotor, which I've read somewhere contains rare earth magnets. On the Control Panel parts list it shows the price for the DC connector/breaker assembly as $58.65, pretty darn unreasonable!

My recommendation is ignore it.. Do not use 12 volt terminals/outlet

In fact I do not know why they bothered installing it in the 1st place.

My pardons. My statement therefore is incorrect. The older models used the field bleed and ate brushes like there was no tomorrow. Question...

Does the inverter model have permenant magnets to start the excitation process? Relying on rotor residual magnetism is a loser with inductive excitation

Thanks for the correction. Running a gen for a little over 100-watts charge potential is not an intelligent use of an expensive machine. My 700-watt 2-stroke can power a 40-amp MegaWatt If the power supply is energized but not connected to the batteries. Once the capacitors charge the unit then is connected to the load. Five hours on a quart and a half of gasoline ain't bad.

Thanks for clearing that up Road Runner.

If the breaker won't reset I'd assume it's broken. Looks like it's integrated with the DC receptacle so it might take a "genuine" Honda part to replace it unless you want to do some improvising. Make sure you're pushing it in correctly, and you're not mistakenly thinking it's still tripped when it's really reset. On the technology comments, there's no bleeding the field current as the DC output has a dedicated winding, and the eu2000i is totally brushless.

Oooooo let"s bleed the 18- volt rotor field current and call it. Call it
...a Feature!"

But Kenji, what we tell them how fast that wears down honrable brushes?

Shhh fool. We sell more parts and service!

Thanks, I have one.

It's a lousy charger when it works. Your better off with a separate battery charger if you have one.