Friday, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:02
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
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