MrRchitty wrote:
About 1700 watts for the Champion barring surges based on many of our tests. The newer models without the circuit breaker are being advertised at 1700 running watts. Per the owner's manual on the Champion, it's 2000 watts for 5 seconds. The Honda is 2000 watts for up to 30 minutes. Dollar for dollar for watts......
In some cases the limitation may be the circuit breaker, or electronics, but only at sea level, IMO. At higher elevations the engine runs out of horsepower before the generator over loads on high electrical power draw. As I posted earlier, my 2000i will barely run a 1500 heater at 3500' elevation. It was drawing about 12A at 119V.
I have no doubt that the Honda would handle this better with its larger 98cc engine. Like the Champion, the Yamaha 2000W inverter gen has a 79cc engine, so I wonder how it performs at similar elevations.
