EU10 and fridge?

Yes and No!

Yes, the Honda has ample capacity to supply power to the fridge.

No, because you should run the fridge from a battery, then use the Honda to maintain a charge in the battery via a 240v to 12 volt battery charger.

A practical way is to use an AGM battery with a capacity of around 100Ah-120Ah. This will give sufficient power to run your fridge constantly over a 24 hour period, but only require the Gennie to re-charge the battery over a two to three hour period, depending on the capacity of the battery charger you also need.

Bill

What the above post says regard running your fridge through a battery is basic ley correct. However,that was the general rule in days gone by when gen sets voltage was only governed by a throttle setting. Generators like the Honda you have are not a problem and will run your fridge direct, in fact the EU10 would run several 60L Engel's...Regards,,, Foxhound(WA)

I use my equivalent sized Yamaha gen to run the fridge directly off the AC 240v and recharge the battery at the same time via a charger.

The problem IMHO is that running your fridge on the EU10 is not optinal for the generator (some would say lessens the life of the engine) as it is not running anywhere near load. Sort of like using a sledgehammer to break a wine glass. Battery is a far energy efficient and fuel saving option with the generator charginng the battery once or twice a day for an hour or so through a decent 240v 4 stage charger (matched to the type and size of battery). yeah i know, you buy a $1,400 generator then someone says ... but them's the breaks. And of course, this is only an opinion.

If you don't care about longevity of the engine, or the small price of running it all day, then yeah, ignore all and go the Engel and the EU.

Yes it can, we ran ours on on freezer to save some of our frozen food when we had a power outage for more than 24hrs. Hubby also used it for his laptop at the same time, but I said no to the TV because it would meant the powering the other stuff it runs through (dvd recorder, sat receiver box etc etc).

But for a camping set up ultimately what has been said is correct, run the fridge off a battery or two. In the end we found it was ideal to have it hooked up to the aux battery in the car as we tend to go for drives away from the campsite thus charging the battery up (also handy having food with ya), and we carried the gennie as a back up measure. We did also invest in a good battery charger - to charge the fridge battery & others in the camper trailer, so along with the gennie this was also a good back up measure should the main vehicle battery ever go flat.

But in those people who are saying that running the fridge would be bad for the engine because it's being underworked, well surely the same applies when you're running a battery charger to charge batteries - I can't imagine that would draw any more power from the gennie. Of course I realize that in that case you're only doing it for say 3hrs or so at a time (depending how many batteries you need to charge), and maybe once every three days.

I had problems with my 1kva, as they have an alloy bore, carbon had scored it even though l had done all the proper services. After some arguing with Honda they eventually paid half the repair bill,one year later problems again so I traded it in on the eu20i. The problem was directly caused by me running my generator for long periods running a bar fridge when camping, I now have 12v fridges and batteries.

Wazzaaaa