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After the summer of '04 and being without power for 8 days and losing 
all the food in our frig and having the business computers down for that 
time, I bought two Honda EU2000 (not 3000) generators. These two 
together were the same cost as a EU3000. They are quiet. The two 2KW 
gives me a lot more flexibility at home in emergency. I can use one on 
the frig and put one outside on the upstairs balcony and run all the 
computer equipment. Then if I need they can be hooked together with an 
adapter in parallel and produce 4KW which is sufficient for the entire 
trailer. These weigh less than 50 pounds so even my wife can handle them 
with no problem (The EU3000 goes at about 120 pounds).

I've run them from time to time when it was overcast and not enough sun 
to keep the batteries up from the panel. On our way up to Michigan in 
August we stopped for an over night in Tennessee and it was brutally hot 
- a lot hotter than FL and now breeze either. I did break now and run 
the A/C till we went to bed and it was at least starting to cool off.

Truman

David LeBlanc wrote:
> Jim said:
>  
>   
> > then 
> > please buy a QUIET one. Truman has TWO Honda EU3000 
> > generators hooked in parallel, which he stashes kinda 
> > protected by his trailer.  I have camped right next to him 
> > and you can barely hear them 20 feet away.
> >     
>
> We have one of these, and you're right - it's really quiet, and a lot less
> likely to disturb someone. We don't run it after 10, anyway.
>
> BTW, if you can't make it through the night on a battery - and we fairly
> often deal with below freezing ridecamp weather here - then you probably
> have either a bad, or an insufficient battery. I made the mistake of getting
> a battery that didn't have enough amp-hours, and was wondering why we were
> waking up to a nearly dead battery...
>
> I'm going to have another battery box installed, along with a solar charger,
> which ought to help keep things topped up and reduce the need for the
> generator in the first place.
>
> So, Truman - just _what_ are you doing to need 2 generators?
>
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