Been away a couple of months and took me quite some time to catch up on alot of neat discussion.
Now onto my anecdotal testimony :D
I have had the champion inverter generator up to my northern cabin quite a few times this winter. I usually power the cabin with a small solar array and a modest battery bank. However, since I don't heat the cabin between visits and the temps not to infrequently drop to minus 30C I find cold starting my propane furnace for several hours puts a huge strain on the cold weakened battery bank. So this winter I just ran the cabin with only the champion 2k inverter providing electricity around the clock without stop except for fuel during my typical 36-48 hours stays. I now have a little over 140 hours on the little champion generator and have no bad news to report.
Typically when I get to my cabin I run my furnace(2.6 amps for both the exhaust and furnace fans) a solid 2-3 hours to get the cold soaked cabin up to temp after that it typically cycles every 20 minutes for 10 or so minutes. I run a small refrigerator at 1.6 amps, it cycles for about 15 minutes every hour, sat box(0.5 amps contant on) and LCD TV(1.3 amps) for 3-4 hours in evening and 1.7 amps worth of lights for 5-6 hours in the evening. So that adds up to a total of just under 7KW/24hours or hour averaged at around 300 watts/hr. I consistently get 9-10 hours on a full tank. When it was warmer and I had no furnace running I would get up 12 hours on a tank on what would be a low load scenario. Additonally it typically only requires 30-60 seconds of choke to start even on the coldest Canadian winter night.
That is all the observations I have to offer, good fuel economy and so far it has not exploded, smoked or given me any other reliability concerns. I appreciate 140 hours is not alot but so far so good.
