Thread: Petrol Generator Advice Required

Originally Posted by zimmer

I've got a Honda EU22I. I bought it because I was sick of all the power cuts we were getting. Since I've had it I think we have only had one power cut, a scheduled maintenance of 6 hours.
No power for me means no house pump. No shower if that time of the day. Dunnies we can fill by carting water in buckets from the tanks but that's a pain.

I wanted an inverter gene so I could run TV etc. If you don't wish to run sensitive electronics one of the cheap larger capacity Chinese one would do. Good luck with some of them if they develop a fault.

Obviously with my Honda I cannot power up the whole house but I don't need to in an outage, just some essentials.

For hot water I bought a 230v travel jug (4.8 amps). My house pump draws 6 amps start/2.24 amps run.
Freezer (largish) 3.74 amps start/0.47 amps run. Fridge, never tested but rated at 0.7 amps run.

Freezers aren't an issue unless you experience a real long outage plus just don't open them.

I've run smaller skill saws, disk grinders, 1/2 " drills no trouble.

One thing to watch for is some genes are optimistically (or just plain fraulentally) rated with with actual max output only being 80% of nametag/claimed rating.

The Hondas are usually true to their claimed rating.

Exactly right. I have a chinese one rated at 3kw but it's lucky to churn out 2.5 kw.