Idle-Up wrote:
Thanks for all the replies Regretfully, Bruce it looks like it's impossible to get a few members to believe they don't own an inverter generator. All they need to do is start their generator up and listen to it race without a load, nothing like the new 6-8 kw diesel Kubota engines at idle most all the time.
I don't think anybody is disagreeing that the previous generation of GAS generators were not inverter generators.
However, some of the models of DIESEL generators have been inverter models--with variable engine speed, depending on load (and not constant engine speed operation)--for decades. It's really, really hard to convince owners of these inverter generators that they really do not have inverter generators, when their ears and owner's manuals tell them otherwise, and when perhaps a few of them may have had to replace the inverter module when it failed at some point.
(It is also worth noting that the new 2.8 kW gas generators have electronic fuel injection rather than a carburetor, itself a worthwhile upgrade and one I would be very happy to see on the 4.0 kW models used in most 30A gas motorhomes.)
