Generator and Surge guard
Question for everyone who uses an inverter generator. Do you use a surge guard when running a generator or is it not neccessary? Reason why I know many of you use one to protect a/c from low voltage...
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gatorcq wrote:
thank you for the insight, but the Honda is also a MSW, is it not?
I have no idea which Honda generator you're referring to but the current Honda Generator Brochure indicates that every model, regardless of just which series it's in or what it's intended purpose is, outputs a sine wave signal. One could use any Honda genset they want but in the RV world it seems almost everyone uses one of the EU series inverter gensets such as the EU2000i or EU3000iS which produce sine wave signals as good or better than your local power utility. One would expect this of other competing brands but apparently the Yamaha EF2000iS which is also an inverter genset may be an exception, with Progressive saying it's sine wave output deteriorates to a modified sine wave under some circumstances and it's that MSW signal that doesn't play well with their EMS units. It's good to hear that Winged One isn't having this issue with his Yamaha EF3000iSEB and to date it's not caused any problems with his EMS-HW50C, indicating this may be an anomaly with just the EF2000iS.
