Microwave that a Honda EU1000i will run
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-...
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What is easy to forget is that the Honda EU2000i is considerably heavier than the Honda EU1000i.
This, and a couple of other considerations make for strong arguments, such as:
1) Get by with just a single EU1000i if you possibly can ... so that you can lift it up (and maybe over - horizontal transfers are terrible on backs) with way less strain into/onto storage compartments, pickup beds, table tops, etc..
2) Two EU1000i generators connected together supply more power than a single EU2000i. One EU2000i = 1600 watts continuous. Two EU1000i's connected together = 1800 watts continuous.
3) Two EU1000i generators connected together are way easier to move one at a time than a single EU2000i is ... see 1) above.
4) Two EU1000i generators connected together MIGHT start and run a 13.5 K air conditioner, where a single EU2000i usually will not ... see 2) above.
5) Two EU1000i generators along on RV trips - to most of the time provide power to do (slightly more than) what a EU2000i can do - also provide backup for basic 120 volt AC drycamping power. If one EU1000i should ever fail, you have the other to at least supply some 120 volt AC power. If a single EU2000i should fail, you're out of high power for the rest of the drycamping trip .... or worse yet ... may have to cut the drycamping trip short.
If I was in the market for portable quiet generator power and could possibly swing the finances, in a heartbeat I'd go for twin EU1000i generators over a single EU2000i generator.
This, and a couple of other considerations make for strong arguments, such as:
1) Get by with just a single EU1000i if you possibly can ... so that you can lift it up (and maybe over - horizontal transfers are terrible on backs) with way less strain into/onto storage compartments, pickup beds, table tops, etc..
2) Two EU1000i generators connected together supply more power than a single EU2000i. One EU2000i = 1600 watts continuous. Two EU1000i's connected together = 1800 watts continuous.
3) Two EU1000i generators connected together are way easier to move one at a time than a single EU2000i is ... see 1) above.
4) Two EU1000i generators connected together MIGHT start and run a 13.5 K air conditioner, where a single EU2000i usually will not ... see 2) above.
5) Two EU1000i generators along on RV trips - to most of the time provide power to do (slightly more than) what a EU2000i can do - also provide backup for basic 120 volt AC drycamping power. If one EU1000i should ever fail, you have the other to at least supply some 120 volt AC power. If a single EU2000i should fail, you're out of high power for the rest of the drycamping trip .... or worse yet ... may have to cut the drycamping trip short.
If I was in the market for portable quiet generator power and could possibly swing the finances, in a heartbeat I'd go for twin EU1000i generators over a single EU2000i generator.
