semi full time no generator

pianotuna wrote:




My total cost for generators since I started RV'ing is over 4500.00. I have nothing to show for that, and I probably ran for less than 400 hours in total over a ten year time frame. That is one reason I don't want one. I'm sure you may agree that changing the oil at -20 F would be less than a pleasant job. Then there is gasoline, which might "grow wings", leaving me without a way to run the generator without going to a gas station.

I remember some of your posts with one of your generators...A boily or some other off brand. Sort of reminds me of a TT forum member who had the misfortune to buy one of the worst modern diesels ever made (a 6.0) and now is dead set against diesels, and is very prolific in posting about how bad diesels are.

Yet most all of us have great experiences with them

I have thousands of hours on my (now two) Honda EU 2000.
They are designed to be able to be stored inside the rv, and at 49# and small size are realistically able to do so.

There is a small tube that one can buy on ebay that screws right into the oil fill port. With this tube, changing oil inside the RV is practical. I use one, and simply pour the oil directly into a empty plastic jug...Have used a milk jug, OJ jug empty oil jut etc. It is mess free...Not a drop spilled. Use the same tube to pour a premeasured oil fill in and that part too is mess free. I have a oil container premarked with the proper oil anmount. This can easily be done inside in less than 10 minutes...Practice in your garage first to get the technique down.

My present dual EU 2000s were purchased used for 1000.00
I gave my original one to my brother, who is thrilled with it.
One doesn't have to buy new. It is pretty hard to hurt a quality generator such as a Honda.