laptop power

A Honda eu10 does give a clean power..... Which means and this is why you pay so much more for it. It will give 240v positive peak and then 240v negative peak, 240v positive peak and 240v negative peak etc..... It will keep doing that as long as the generator is going.
A cheap generator ie a 2 stroke from some of the hardware shops may give 240v positive peak 180v negative 290 positive peak 240v negative peak 200 positive peak 220 negative peak and so on.
The honda eu10 and honda eu20 will be fine.... That is why you pay so much for them
You will not have a problem. I run a laptop and an external hard drive at the same time to download pictures. My laptop and hard drive is very important to me

That is why it is called AC, Alternating Current. It alternates from positive to negative and creates a sine wave. where as DC is direct current which means the power is 13.8, 0, 13.8, 0, 13.8, 0 and so on.

==It will give 240v positive peak and then 240v negative peak, 240v positive peak and 240v negative peak etc==

Actually the 240 volt value is a RMS (root mean square) value where the peak value is more like 339 volts approx. :-)

Andrew

Hey Andrew,
Sorry mate.... Have forgotten alot since my TAFE days. But still remembered the simplified version

Don't be sorry.....that is about all i could remember from my tafe days :-)

Andrew

Hey guys, you are assuming that you get 240v ac of course, then it changes direction at 50hz or 50 times a second+>->+>-and back again.

Extfilm, you may like to explain your 13.8 and 0 theory....... I though 0 when it had no power ;-))) Of course dependent on battery power and the charge to the battery.

You will robably find that most laptops run on only 12 - 22 V DC anyway, so it don't matter what sort of gennie you use to generate the 240V that goes into the AC/DC converter. I've run my IBM off various gensets & inverters without any problems for a couple years now.

dont worry about the electrics you wil not have enough time to use them. the v8 power will blo you away.