Honda 3000 (2800) enough?

We got the Honda 3000i for our TT and it worked great last weekend. Ran entire trailer with out an issue. The 3.5 gallon tank was really nice. My wife an i can load it into truck and it fits under truck cover when closed. Also very quiet even when working hard.

corvettekent wrote:
I don't get why everyone thinks they can't live without A/C. We do a lot of dry camping but we have never had an emergency and had to use the A/C. If it is to hot in the 5th wheel we sit outside in the shade or sit and look at the stars. We carry a Honda 2000i but rarely use it.

That is because we live in the northwest. Even if the days get very hot, the evenings usually cool off nicely. Also, our humidity is low in the summer.
If you are camping in Texas or the Gulf states in the summer, you would think AC was a necessity:)

Not sure which Honda model you are referring to but either of their 3K watt gennies should run your 13.5K AC unit. With such sporadic use intended the Champion 3100 inverter genny offers a great value and will easily power your AC when called upon for about half the price. Reviews are good and Champion customer service is well known for taking care of their customers. Even if you opted for their 3500 watt version you would save $700, but for the requirements you stated it would be overkill.

Where we go camping, we never use AC neither. Higher elevation has pretty chilly nights, when at day heat we dive into lake.
But still remember on my travels years ago, we stop our 32' motorhome at Nevada casino. Coach had awning over each window, so some extra shade, yet 2 AC running 24 hr would still allow 85F interior in the afternoon.
The So wall was too hot to touch.
I bought my Honda3000EU about 10 years ago. It come with factory defect, that would run at lower load, but would trip overload with AC.
After the repair it runs flawlessly and since our 15k AC was drawing 8.X amp, I could use small micro oven at the same time.

Vintage465 wrote:
The Honda inverter ES3000 seems like a good unit and is only $500.00 more than the Champion 3500 inverter unit.

AFAIK no such animal as a Honda ES3000. :@ Presumably you're talking about the class leading Honda EU3000iS OR the completely different Honda EU3000i Handi ... either way, you want to compare apples to apples. ;)

I do exactly the same thing. We travel with the weather but want the option of running the ac IF we get caught in the heat. We have a remote start Honda EU3000SI bolted in the truck bed and covered with an 12 gauge metal ventilated box. ac 13,500 and also use it for the hairdryer and microwave. 520 watts/bogart/trimetric for the four gc2 batteries.

I have also repaired Honda equipment in a dealership and owned their motorcycles and lawn equipment. If I wanted to be able to take a product to the dealer and get it fixed I would buy Honda first because there are more dealers and then Yamaha. Yamaha is also an excellent product.

When the power would go out and 40 generators would show up at our shop very few would be Honda or Yamaha. An example of their quality is even seen in the ability of the metal used in their carburetors to withstand stale fuel. It's not that they cant have stale fuel issues but they seemed to tolerate it better than the others.

corvettekent wrote:
I don't get why everyone thinks they can't live without A/C. We do a lot of dry camping but we have never had an emergency and had to use the A/C. If it is to hot in the 5th wheel we sit outside in the shade or sit and look at the stars. We carry a Honda 2000i but rarely use it.

I don't get why some people think because they like to rough it, everyone else should also.

We have a Yamaha 2400 that handles our air/con. I would expect the 3000 to be OK. Once the air is running we can run the TV and a couple other light loads.

Very handy on those really hot humid days when the park power goes out because every rig in the place pulling max amps.

corvettekent wrote:
I don't get why everyone thinks they can't live without A/C. We do a lot of dry camping but we have never had an emergency and had to use the A/C. If it is to hot in the 5th wheel we sit outside in the shade or sit and look at the stars. We carry a Honda 2000i but rarely use it.

I am sure are there are a lot of people like you and I am sure there are a lot of people like me. It's not that people like me can't live without AC. We just don't / won't camp without AC.

We have a Honda 3000 and love it very much. We've used it extensively this summer in 100 degree temperatures. It handled our 15000 air conditioner just fine. The refrigerator was also running and switched to electric when I fired up the generator. It is a life saver in this heat.

I bought a Yamaha 3000sIEB. If Champion had been available at the time, I would have purchased that make instead.