Laz01 posted:

thanks for the feedback - never heard of Kipor gennies, but I will look into it. Are parts readily available should something stuff up?
cheers,

Best Off Road posted:

My undesrtanding of them is that they are such a perfect copy of the Honda that parts are interchangeable.

The Australian Distributor is now Primus Australia, their backup is without question.

nowimnumberone posted:

thats right more than 1000 hits who would want to read 1000 plus hits when the can just put up a new post and get what they want with 4-5 answers
cheers

Maîneÿ . . . posted:

so now your number one, another worthwhile point worth mentioning is the 'archived' posts will (most) possibly contain redundant information, as technology is changing rapidly with new models with improved specifications being released often, therefore not available on the 'archived threads'

Yes, I also say put up a new thread if you need relevant information

Maîneÿ . . .

Laz01 posted:

nowimnumberone & Maîneÿ pretty much sumed up what I was trying to acheive with new technology and without having to sort through 1000+ archive items.
cheers guys,

Laz01 posted:

Thanks Dennis, one of the main factors that has made me lean more towards Yamaha.
cheers, Laurie

Member - Roachie (SA) posted:

I also have a Yamaha 1kva inverter gennie. A mate of mine has the Honda equivalent. We were camped on Kangaroo Island a few years ago, side by side for about 10 days. Every few days we would take it in turns to fire-up one of the gennies to recharge our batteries. No point running both gennies at once, as each one was quite capable of running our 4 fridges and 3 battery chargers.

However, one arvo, just for the hell of it, we started them both up at the same time. I don't know if there's something wrong with mine or not (it works perfectly well), but although it is claimed to be quieter than the Honda, it was actually SLIGHTLY louder. It would not have been noticeable to the naked ear when only one or the other was running.....but when they were both running at the same time it did seem slightly louder than the Honda.

Both are very good at what they do. The first time I used mine was on a trip down to Monteith (near Murray Bridge) at Xmas 2005. We had 5 fridges (including Pesty's Waeco 110L, Muddy's 60L Waeco, Brew69's Waeco 60L and my 2 Engels....40L and 110L upright in the camper) PLUS we had 3 battery chargers running. This was on a pretty hot day. We started the gennie about half an hour after pesty's missus had gone for her nanny nap about 3pm....his camper was about 10 meters from where we set the gennie up. She never heard it running and slept blissfully through it. Even with this reasonable load on, we had it set on ECO mode and the only time it revved up a bit was when Pesty's great big Waeco cut in....then it would settle down again.

Roachie

Laz01 posted:

thanks Ozhumvee & Roachie for providing me with valuable first hand info in relation to this topic - pretty much what I was looking for, although the following couple of post directing me towrds "Solar" sounds very interesting, if you can get your head around the amount of power generated by various items and the amount of amps put back in with a solar panel.
thanks,
Laurie

Shaker posted:

How does solar help in this scenario?:

4pm .... Leaving campsite, camper all packed up, go to start vehicle, flat as a tack.

I hooked up the generator & had the vehicle started in 30 minutes.

Dennis Ellery posted:

Where’s your evidence? – Another unsubstantiated claim. Check the specs - noise, capacity etc - the Kipor is neither a clone of the Yamaha or Honda. It’s not even a close copy.

veight posted:

What i should say is Kipor is A poor chinese copy of a Honda
Yamaha / Honda in the 1kva is very close in specifications

I will State Kipor engine / electrical parts are NOT the same
Yes honda airfilters fit a kipor but thats about it.