Honda's new EU2200i model...

road-runner wrote:
With the Honda eu-series generators, there's no phase issue as the second one that gets fired up places itself on line in phase with the first. There is an amplitude issue, however, as the Hondas stand alone providing a higher output voltage than other brands. With mixed brands I'd expect the Honda to carry the full load until its output gets pulled down to the other brand's no-load voltage. Paralleling with an inverter that's not designed for back-feeding is just asking to fry the inverter.

this assumes that the parallel cables are connected, and generators are fired up one at a time. It also means that the inverter sections are not completely independent and the one starting up will phase and amplitude sync with the running one as it starts up instead of relying on it's internal time base and amplitude section. Something that is very easy to do.

If voltages are not the same, then the lower voltage inverter will act as a power sync (load) to the other inverter. and results may not be very nice. they will have to come to the same voltage or one or the other is going to suffer.


What happens with a honda if both are running THEN the parallel cables are plugged in??

Never done that, but I'll bet someone has.