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When you’re ready to go camping, tailgating or just need a portable power supply, the Honeywell HW2000i provides portable, quiet and clean power for all your recreation needs. Provides a powerful 2000 watts of power and weights only 58 lbs., this unit runs off of unleaded gas and will run over 5 hours on a full tank providing 120V outlet power and added 12V DC power. The HW2000i is an inverter generator so it provides very clean power to run high performance electronics like plasma TV’s and computer equipment. For safe, clean, portable power you can take anywhere, the Honeywell HW2000i is just the right size for you. Generator is CARB compliant (meets California emissions requirements) and 50 State approved. more info
September 19th, 2009
Great Generator
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Great generator. Runs great, very quiet and handles multible loads without any problems. Used this generator all summer for camping in my RV.
September 20th, 2009
Excellent performance, good buy for the $$, could be quieter
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Purchased this generator to take in the field for shooting photography and video. My strobes require a great initial load, and this generator handles it well. Starts up right away, performs perfectly. I wish the unit were quieter because I am running sound when I do video, and to isolate the running motor noise I have to run it about 100+ feet away, but I was not expecting it to be silent.
This is a good buy, and is the best for the money compared to the Honda (which I had owned previously, but at twice the price.)
You can buy cheaper generators and fool around with mixing oil and gas but this is really the best…
September 21st, 2009
Generator
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Unit worked fine out of the box. Was a little noisier than I expected, but for the price I’m very satisfied.
September 25th, 2009
Inverter output
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
After being unable to discover anywhere in the product info, I called the 888-Honeywell phone, to inquire about the type of inverter. The result is still unclear. The rep told me it was not a pure sine inverter. Another user here, in another review, has tested with loads and O’scope, and believes it IS a decent sine wave.
Transformer based items, and induction motors may not work well on modified sine wave. “Universal” motors should be fine. For my application, using an Iota 48V, 15A charger will let me utilize my purchase, but not as fully as I wanted to. (it will not power the 240V charger in an XW6048 inverter/charger).
It will be several months before I have the off grid system running, but initial look-see and start up is OK
The oil fill port, is used as the oil drain port, with a 6″ plastic pipe nipple (supplied) threaded into it, and you tilt to drain. A bit “Tacky”, I wonder how Honda does theirs?
Starting, was uneventful, I started with 1gal in the tank, 40 primers, choke and about 4 rope pulls. Switch the choke right off, and no problem (Los Angeles, afternoon, about 78F). Restarts seemed to want choke, just to fire, then it was fine.
I used my 10A shop vac to apply a test load. With “normal” setting, the engine lugged down a bit and then kept going. With “Eco” about the same thing, a little longer (2 sec) for the engine to recover, but on a nice flat cement slab, the torque and throttle, actually twisted the genset around about 10 degrees, sticky rubber cushion feet and all.
I was disappointed the Eco setting did not idle the engine back a little further, but then again, it struggled when I threw the 10A shop vac at it. Idled back further, may stall the engine when suddenly loaded
Using a Kill-a-Watt power monitor, I read 122VAC, 57.8 HZ, load or no load. Power Factor of the vac was .9 Amps draw was 11.1A .
Same vac on the house outlet was PF .9 too, but amps 10.5 @ 118VAC 59.9HZ I cannot tell what sort of motor the shop vac uses, and if a square wave would run it different. So as to it’s wave form, I’m still undecided, if mod sine, or pure sine.
Sound level, seems louder than I expected, but I’ve got no meter to check with. Air flow – the engine cooling air exits via the black grill at the end, shared by the exhaust outlet. It’s pretty warm, and I wonder what 2 or 3 hours of runtime will do to the plastic shell.
The EPA sticker rates it as 125 hour life, for it’s emissions rating, so maybe that 2 year warranty will come in handy. I’m looking at about 5-10 hours usage a week, for off grid battery charging @ 900W .
Mike
September 26th, 2009
Starting ??
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Could not start the unit till after 2 hours of checking, found that the fule filter hose was to short and bent the inlet over to stop gas flow. Replaced it from a Napa unit $6 and now runs fine.. China quality control ??? don