The cat is out of the bag ! New Honda Generator !!

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Fuel injection economy difference versus carburetor?

On a 2000w generator likely used 20-30hr per year...completely irrelevant.

On a 2,000 watt generator completely relevant. I am not idly curious thank you very much...try 2,000 hours yearly.

Assuming 8hr per gallon (about what we get with our 2007 2400w Yamaha), that's about 250gal per year.

If you get a 5% improvement (unlikely), that's about 12.5gal saved but that's also likely at the high end of usage.

If history is an example, this unit will likely run $700-1000 other generators of similar output...it's going to be a long time for fuel efficiency to pay off.

Again, the bigger advantage would be reliability.

And remember, there are probably far more generators bought for work than RVing.
I have one 2000 that I bought used 10 years ago and it will last me forever.

By contrast, I’ve bought probably 20 generators in the last 10 years and at least a half dozen of them were 2k Hondas or Yamis.

valhalla360 wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Fuel injection economy difference versus carburetor?

On a 2000w generator likely used 20-30hr per year...completely irrelevant.

On a 2,000 watt generator completely relevant. I am not idly curious thank you very much...try 2,000 hours yearly.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Fuel injection economy difference versus carburetor?

On a 2000w generator likely used 20-30hr per year...completely irrelevant.

Lantley wrote:
Sometimes a long and winding road is the most enjoyable way to get there

But in this case, it's a road that has nothing to do with the starting point or destination and is a dead end that you can't turn your 5ver around on after you get stuck there and the propane runs out...

Fuel injection economy difference versus carburetor?

Sometimes a long and winding road is the most enjoyable way to get there

Fisherman wrote:
Ah how did it go from a new generator to methods of transporting and losing gas.

It was a long and winding road...

Ah how did it go from a new generator to methods of transporting and losing gas.

Lantley wrote:
There is no pigtail when transporting. just a bottle.
Equipment malfunction is a seperate issue.

I'll take the risk of a little spillage over losing the entire contents any day. And, equipment malfunction is not a separate issue. A pigtail leak is a system failure just like a loose nozzle or pinhole allowing gasoline spillage is a system failure. You have your preference, and I have my preference. Trying to discredit my preference because it is different than yours is beneath you.

And gasoline still has more BTU's than propane.