The 2000 watt Honda and 2000 watt Kipor are darn near identical in performance. (Honda owners will hate that statement).
Why should we hate it? I've always viewed the Kipor as a pretty faithful clone of the Honda. I considered the tradeoff to be price vs. predicted reliability, with an equal performance level.
when attached to a resistive load that is gradually increased, both begin to fade at about the same point - 1725 watts.
When I ran this test my eu2000i didn't begin to fade until 1,800 watts (as defined by voltage over 120), but when being that precise it's probably necessary to take atmospheric conditions into account.
Bottom line - all of the 2,000 advertised watt inverters (Honda, Kipor, Yamaha and Champion) reliably operated up to 1,500 watts of continuous load. NONE were capable of operating at a continuous load of 2,000 watts.
My eu2000i has never seen 2,000 watts for any amount of time, peaking at around 1,900, but does operate reliably at 1,800. I wonder how one has to rig a test to pull the advertised peak power?
