New You Tube Harbor Freight Inverter Generator noise Test

2oldman, It was the Harbor Freight Predator. It was much noisier than I had expected and rattled. The HF ad compared their cheapo to the Honda but it really wasn't comparable. I ended up buying a Ryobi 2200 watt inverter generator from Home Depot on sale for the same price HF got for theirs on sale. We only use if for boondocking and love the way it idles down while providing enough power to top-off the batteries, run the refrigerator and power the TV & satellite system plus warm our bed by powering our electric blanket. It runs for hours on a gallon of gas. I used to bring a 5 gallon gas can with us to make up what the on board Onan generator that used a gallon of gas an hour under the same loads while spinning at a constant speed (3600 rpm) and making enough noise you and the neighbors knew it was running.

From my experience, any generator under maximum load is going to sound bad.

There's no excuse why Onan hasn't come out with a new inverter model generator like most manufacturers have instead of continuing to make the same tired 50 year old constant speed design they are. They're way late to market with them.