I thought this thread was a CPE2000i information and user result thread - not a CPE2000i against a Honda thread.
I think some of this is unavoidable because the Honda provides a well understood baseline for comparison. Now that the CPE2000i is being characterized pretty well, the comparisons should migrate to "Honda vs. CPE" threads of their own. I've been unable to restrain myself from posting comparisons here, and have tried to be respectful of the fact that it is a CPE thread.
I think it's pretty clear now that the CPE2000i has carved out a new power class for name-brand inverter generators (unless the Yamaha 2000 is more or less the same, which I don't know). It's similar to the situation of the Yamaha 2400 being in its own power class. While the CPE2000i isn't a Honda 2000 killer, I think it should be a pretty effective Honda 1000 killer.
Another result that's surfaced in this thread is how the PD converters, in spite of whatever flaws they have, are the best choice with a small generator. Probably anything less than the Yamaha 2400.
I don't have the twin Hondas but I've read plenty of times that when one is shut off, like if out-of-gas, the other keeps going. You can refuel the stopped unit and then restart it with no power interruption if the running unit doesn't go into overload. Possibly nobody knows what happens if they lose sync, since they sync to the power that's coming into the inverter's output, and it's "impossible" for 2 units to lose sync. When starting up, the inverter won't begin producing power unless it's able to sync itself to the existing power, if there is any.
