I know the first response will be get a bigger generator but the 1000 does everything we need except running a microwave and it stores in the limited room we have. Tried a Sunbeam SGS90701B-B 0.7-Cubic Foot 700 Watt Microwave but it will only run about 20 seconds and then the generator trips. Is there any low draw microwaves out there?

Go to Wal-Mart and read the wattages on the boxes for something smaller. I would have thought the 1000 would have run a 700 watt microwave. There wasn't anything else using power? Did the battery charger kick on when you started the generator? Our battery charger always kicks on for a while when we first start the generator.Bill

If there were low draw MW's they wouldn't heat very fast. You're geting dangerously close to "use the propane" territory, like when someone asks about making coffee.

1st make sure nothing else is using power.Try to use microwave if it trips see below:2nd set microwave to 80% power or something less than 100% power. If that works then each time change the power setting and that is the best you can do.

X2 on trying lower power settings

My microwave plugs into a 120VAC RECEPTACLE on a open panel on top of the fridge. Maybe if yours is much the same you can plug the Microwave directly into the Honda Generator instead adapting to the trailer Shore Power Cable.Chances are other 120VAC items may have come on when you was testing. The Honda EU1000i should put out I would think around 120VAC @ 850WATTS. You might check the specs on that. Roy Ken

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Crumm
Explorer
Apr 26, 2015
Thanks for all the ideas. Once I figure out which route I am going I will report back.
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Apr 26, 2015
POLITICAL is when an lobbying organization like ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND bribes congresmen to divert FOOD so speculators can reap billions of dollars. This scandal makes the legendary Teapot Dome Scandal look ludicrous.

My toad Can Not get less than 25 mpg. In NINETY THOUSAND miles of driving from the wide open West Texas 28 mph flats to the 25 mpg Stop And Go gridlock on California's I405 this has been the case. But I fueled up in the USA at the Chevron station in San Ysidro CA and proceeded to get 22.6 mpg in moderate to light traffic with no wind. The next fuel up mileage resumed 24-26 mpg.

You people are being played for suckers.

This thread is about power potential of generators. You are paying ten dollars plus for beef, insanely high prices for corn for food, getting worse mileage and power and getting high fuel prices rammed up your rear.

It's a damned sad fact when MEXICAN GASOLINE is superior to USA gasoline all because of massive USA corruption. There is ZERO PROOF alcohol improves emissions. None! Not a shred!

Meanwhile my generators produce full potential and my machinery provides green economy operation.

Does the term SHEEPLE come to mind? Next trip north I am carrying a gas can!
atreis
Explorer
Apr 26, 2015
Wow. That got political.

Amazon has inexpensive PSW inverters that will run your microwave and other higher-power stuff such as this one. Run the microwave off the inverter, and use the generator to charge the batteries (when not running the microwave).
gtwitch
Explorer
Apr 25, 2015
I have to take my hat off to ninerbike and his comment on altitude ( the only one in this complete thread)!! I have a great example of that as I live at 7200 ft in Laramie, WY and have a 1000 watt Yamaha and it will just run the block heater of my Pickup here in town and I measured with my Killowatt at 726 watts continuous and when I tried this at my cabin at 8500 ft the little Yamaha just will give up!!! Drive over to Cheyenne where Alt is 6100 ft the little Yamaha will do 775 watts before it gives up. Also, I can document the effects of alcohol 10% fuel vs. non alcohol fuel with nearly the same results in these small carbureter engines. Think about that the next time you put this 10% or higher fuel in your car and thank our congressional reps for letting the EPA force this crappy fuel on us at our own expense becuase we are paying twice, first at the pump and second, our tax money is subsidizing the farmers that are growing the feedstock that makes the alcohol. The Great American Boondogle, Use more fuel per mile to get less clean air. Enough said and I willclimb down off my Soapbox now.
gtwitch in wyoming where the wind gives us very clean air to breath!
full_mosey
Explorer
Apr 25, 2015
SoundGuy wrote:

A little late to the party? :W

First liar wins, eh?
SoundGuy
Explorer
Apr 22, 2015
RobertL0 wrote:
Look for an inverter microwave. With those, when you select a lower power on the microwave, it actually lowers the power, not cycle the high power on and off like most others ones.

A little late to the party? :W
RobertL0
Explorer
Apr 22, 2015
Yes there are. Look for an inverter microwave. With those, when you select a lower power on the microwave, it actually lowers the power, not cycle the high power on and off like most others ones.

We have been using a large Panasonic inverter in our home for 7 years..

Crumm wrote:
I know the first response will be get a bigger generator but the 1000 does everything we need except running a microwave and it stores in the limited room we have.

Tried a Sunbeam SGS90701B-B 0.7-Cubic Foot 700 Watt Microwave but it will only run about 20 seconds and then the generator trips.

Is there any low draw microwaves out there?
NinerBikes
Explorer
Apr 22, 2015
Huntindog wrote:
SoundGuy wrote:
On the flip side .... ;)

I've owned an EU2000i previously and now have another one ... before each purchase I too carefully examined whether I could get away with a lighter weight, somewhat less costly EU1000i and both times concluded the 2K made more sense. The 1K would likely have handled my battery recharging tasks but it won't run my wife's hairdryer, which I've been told is of "vital" importance. :R Aside from a 1K not being able to run the trailer's microwave oven it's also marginal for other appliances that we like to use even while dry camping - toaster, Tassimo coffee machine, etc. The 2K will handle all of these with no effort at all - I just plug the trailer into my EU2000i and while it's running the trailer behaves no differently than if it were plugged into shore power. Although I'm now quite a bit older than I used to be I'm not dead yet (at least I wasn't the last time I checked ;) ) so I'll happily lift a 50 lb EU2000i instead of a 30 lb EU1000i for the clear advantages it offers. To each his / her own. :B
X2

Plus the cost difference between the 1K and 2 K isn't very much at all. With two 1Ks, you are still very limited as to what you can run. With two 2Ks, you have all the power that a typical TT will need in almost any situation.

For me, this decision is a no brainer.
Dual 2Ks and an extended run tank.:B My TT came with a lot of nice features and capabilities that I paid good money for. In order to actually use and enjoy it to the fullest extent.. It requires enough power. Without that, I might as well have bought a cargo TT and thrown a bed in it.

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.
pnichols
Explorer II
Apr 22, 2015
If one wants to twice lift a 46 lb. 2000i generator, needs 3200 watts of continuous high power at times, and can afford them ... then so be it.

If one only needs 1600-1800 watts of continuous high power at times, and can afford them ... then the reasoning behind my post earlier was that, IMHO, two 1000i generators make a bit more sense than a single 2000i generator. The main reason being elimination of the man-handling of the weight of a single 2000i. I'm a 6'2" 220 lb. camper and what I do know is I don't care very much for lifting - vertically and then maybe reaching out to move horizontally - my 51 lb. all steel Honda portable. I'd much prefer to do that kind of stuff with a 29 lb. steel/plastic Honda EU1000i, instead.

P.S. I'd sure like to see an example of two 1000i generators running a 13.5K air conditioner when a single 2000i wouldn't. Then again, maybe that's never going to happen. :h
Huntindog
Explorer
Apr 21, 2015
SoundGuy wrote:
On the flip side .... ;)

I've owned an EU2000i previously and now have another one ... before each purchase I too carefully examined whether I could get away with a lighter weight, somewhat less costly EU1000i and both times concluded the 2K made more sense. The 1K would likely have handled my battery recharging tasks but it won't run my wife's hairdryer, which I've been told is of "vital" importance. :R Aside from a 1K not being able to run the trailer's microwave oven it's also marginal for other appliances that we like to use even while dry camping - toaster, Tassimo coffee machine, etc. The 2K will handle all of these with no effort at all - I just plug the trailer into my EU2000i and while it's running the trailer behaves no differently than if it were plugged into shore power. Although I'm now quite a bit older than I used to be I'm not dead yet (at least I wasn't the last time I checked ;) ) so I'll happily lift a 50 lb EU2000i instead of a 30 lb EU1000i for the clear advantages it offers. To each his / her own. :B
X2

Plus the cost difference between the 1K and 2 K isn't very much at all. With two 1Ks, you are still very limited as to what you can run. With two 2Ks, you have all the power that a typical TT will need in almost any situation.

For me, this decision is a no brainer.
Dual 2Ks and an extended run tank.:B My TT came with a lot of nice features and capabilities that I paid good money for. In order to actually use and enjoy it to the fullest extent.. It requires enough power. Without that, I might as well have bought a cargo TT and thrown a bed in it.