Easy start on 2000 watt 13500 btu

jodeb720 wrote:
I have a coleman 13.5 and a honda 2000.
At Sea Level, 70 Degrees they work in harmony.
At 95 degrees and 1000' elevation & eco mode off, it'll start and use ever bit of the 2000 watts it can put out for 20 minutes then overload.
At 4000', again, with Eco off, I can start it and get it to run for maybe 10 minutes and overload.

The Easy Start may solve your problem - but you're right at the upper limit of what your generator may do. A 2000 Generator may put it out, but for how long (again, my experience with my honda is it's rated at 2000 watts max, for 20 minutes but sustains 1600Watts continuously.

Oh, I do have a hard start kit on my unit as well.

I ran mine many a time at 3000ft or so all day no problem. around 4000 ft is where it starts to give out. What we did find is that the new honda 2200 runs like a champ even at 7000ft w/o overloading. And at 4500ft where the 2000 would give up the 2200 will run my AC no problem. So I experimented a bit to see what margin it had, since it was running at about 3/4 throttle. Turn fridge on AC instead of propane, +300W load, engine rev'd a bit more and kept running for an hour no problem. Turned on the TV another 50 watts or so, again on issue. So the 2200 in addition to a few more watts has much more reserve, likely due to the much larger engine. My brother found that at 7000ft the 2200 still would start and run the AC even in eco mode and occassionally the micro air would kick out once then restart and run the rest of the day no problem. This was with the factory low altitude jetting, He now has the factory high altitude jetting and will see what difference if any it makes.