Same headaches this weekend again with a WFCO 8955 in my dads trailer. Had to disconnect all batteries (2-24's and a 27). Start the 2000, connect one battery, wait 30 minutes, connect a second one, wait another half hour, connect the third. I overloaded the 2000 with every breaker off in excess of 30 times trying to reconnect the batteries. Which mean disconnecting all the batteries each time and starting over. After 30 or do attempts, I got the three connected and the gen was not even struggling. Lo and behold it could now power my Schumacher charger on high (over 400 watts), and finally the 2000 would "load up"..
The next morning, after running for 4 hours the day before, it started upon prob, without shedding any battery loads. It never revved up even once throughout this whole ordeal, until my dad plugged in a hair dryer in the middle of all of it. It. Never triggered an overload, just revved way up. When it comes to any loads with a reasonable power factor, and not too large of a surge, the 2000i is an excellent value.
For me, it's way to much trouble to manage.
Prof, I will post a video, showing the breaker panel, PD mode, and the issues I'm having. Hopefully by Wednesday. I have my fingers crossed that by then my parts for my (semi) trusty 1200 will be here.
I will be buying a Honda next year, as much as I like to like the Champions, and I would have given the 1200 a 5 star rating, it crapping out just validates a lot of the points the naysayers have been making. It never once popped the breaker, and yet it still fried the condenser. I always monitor output voltage and frequency, so it does not get abused.
