jimh425 wrote:
Fwiw, I couldn’t even run my 9000 watt AC with a 2000 watt Cosco brand that my wife’s uncle had. I did try including turning everything off.
Watts aren’t equal to watts more importantly the starting capability is not the same with a Honda vs other brands.
Whenever I think about buying something else even much cheaper, my wife reminds me that I said I’d only buy a Honda. :D
While I haven't run the gamut of china-bomb generators, one of my engineers on a project bought a Costco Yamaha knockoff special. Same thing, it "worked", but it didn't put out near the power that it should. It wouldn't even think about running his camper AC, and it wouldn't run his microwave very well with anything else pulling power. He exchanged it twice before just getting his money back.
Actually had a new real Yamaha 2000 that we bought on that job. Side by side, the Yamaha would run everything the Yamanot would not. Same loads would also run off of a 20A 120V circuit hooked to our 30kva office gen set through 200' of extension cord and not pop the breaker on the gen set.
