How many hours on your Honda EU Generator?

I'm a motorcycle vendor, when we do shows that require us to have a generator our EU along with the Companion can run 24 hours a day for many days straight. Our EU is three years old and has about 2000 hours or so, the Companion is six months and has about 400 hours. We use an extended 6 gallon tank so we rarely shut them off doing an event.

One of my honda 2000's is 10 years old and gets a heavy workout. about 20 times/year it has been run probably 4 hrs/day for 3 days. so probably over 2,000 hrs. Other than changing oil once/year and cleanng the air filter oncee or twice/year and a new sparkplug this year I haven't done anything to it.

(Once i figured out stabil is******for keeping the jets clean and switched to Seafoam!!)

Personally I know many folks with honda or yamaha generators and none of them have had any reliability issues.

I have a Honda 850 genterator I bought as a teenager in 1976. No idea how many hours on it but it has to be a couple of thousand. It stuck a valve once in the early eighties and last month the points finaly had to be replaced. For the last 5 years it has sat at my cabin all winter. In the spring I put in fresh gas and change the oil and it starts first pull everytime.
It was that kind of reliability that led me to buy a EU2000 last week.

I use my EU2000i pair for tailgating, so they get used anywhere from 20-45 hrs per weekend (depending on the weather). 6-7 home games a yr for the last 7 yrs., so I probably have around 1200 hrs on them. I change the oil after every tailgating weekend, and I clean the air filter every year. The only other maintenance I've done is replacing the spark plugs, cleaning the spark arrestor (only twice), and replacing one pull cord. I also start them up periodically in the off season to keep everything lubed up well. I don't see any reason why these things won't run another 6-7 yrs, if not longer.

Thanks for all the replys.

RM

I have no idea how many hours I have on my EU2000 but it's been used a lot for the last 9 years and still works like new.

No idea of hours other than a lot. EU2000I is 12 years old we dry camp and all season, 3 weeks then home for 5 days and back out again. I only use the Onan 5500
if we have to run ac. The 2000 runs everything else including the microwave/oven. I change oil every third week and at the 10 year mark I changed spark plug. It still starts on the first pull. It's not often you find this kind of quality today.

Have an eu3000 i bought used in oct 09.Still runs strong.As for hours i have no idea but do quite a bit of trips to glamis during winter where it prob runs atleast 10 hours for the weekend,and the weeklong trip it prob gets atleast 30 hours put on it.

I also use it for summer trips too to other places.My guess is atleast a 100 for glamis trips and prob atleast another 100 for other trips i do.

When this one does go i will replace it with another 3000.

I have a Honda 500 that I bought in April, 1985. It is still running good. I never subject it to direct rain. I always find a place to tuck in it under cover and place it on a board, never directly on the ground. There is no hour meter on it so I have no idea how many hours are on it.

I also have a 2000 that I bought in July 2005. It is running good also. Again, I always tuck it in some area out of direct rain and I always put a plywood board under it so it doesn't set directly on the ground. This one doesn't have an hour meter either.

LeRoy

After 10 years on one and 6 on another, I have yet to work on them! I have no idea who has the most.