I throw in my 2 pennies....
I got my CPE 2000i about 3 weeks ago, I just got to go camping last weekend.
I ran the genset for 2 hours morning and evening, mostly to charge the batteries. It worked well except I had 1 issue.
When the rv battery was run down in the morning, not dead, still ran the fridge, pump, or furnace no prob. I would start up the generator, warm it up for a minute, (it never needed more than 20 seconds of choke, btw). Anyhow, I would plug the RV in, and it would labor slightly, and the overload light would come on. It did this a number of times, so I checked for other loads, and it was the converter only (WFCO 8955PEC), and it was causing an overload.The engine was not laboring very much, maybe like it would for a medium load. So I went and got a 1800 watt hairdryer, cranked it on high, no problem. I tried loading the gen with the hairdryer, and then quickly switching to the converter load, no problem. It would even idle right down in ECO mode.The genset should not have an issue with a converter that draws less than 1000 watts. I contacted CPE, we had a ridiculous exchange of 6 emails, and then I followed up with details, and no response.
Anyone else have any issues with their converter?
I also tried starting my Dometic Brisk Air 13.5KBTU, not a chance. I will try again with a hard start capcitor.
