I just returned from a week plus of dry camping at Newaygo State Park in Michigan. This was my first real test of the Champion inverter generator, and it performed as well as I'd hoped.
I ran it daily to keep the battery charged, and let my son play his X-Box several hours a day.
The biggest test was when I used it to power the microwave. I turned off all the AC breakers except the main and microwave just to avoid unintentional trips and it ran well enough to let me nuke our lunches one day. The microwave seemed to run at a lower voltage, but the food came out hot. The generator was able to support the load for 3 minutes or more. This while economy mode was enabled too.
The neighbor across the way from me was impressed with the quietness of the generator as well and said he might look in to getting one too.
I did notice the idle would skip around a little bit, but I'm pretty sure that was due to changes in the load. When I ran the generator without a load back home, the idle was constant. I think the generator is just a little sensitive to changes in load, and Professor's suggestion of bumping up the idle speed might take care of this.
I hope this helps!
-Dan
