I've heard and seen nothing bad about those smaller units. Food truck had 4 of them all wired up together last weekend - couldn't hear them 2 feet away over the bigger 5kw units ~50+ feet away.
I don't think that the 5kw unit is 250 pounds, but I could be wrong. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Peter Kranz <[email protected]> wrote: > So we had two PG&E outages this week that lasted for extended periods of > time.. one 13 hours and another closer to 20 hours.. In both bases we > lugged the massive 5000 watt generator to the tower site. I think it weighs > 250 lbs. and is very hard to load and unload from the back of the pickup > truck. Honestly I think it’s one of those mom picking up a car from on top > of their baby moments every time I manage to load this thing by myself. > > > > My biggest site takes ~1kw of power to run when the UPS is recharging the > on-site batteries (like it would be after a power outage) which seems well > within the possibility of the smaller Honda EU2000i unit. > > > > I worry about the stability of the power, and it tripping the UPS, along > with its actual capacity to provide clean power that the UPS wont reject. I > figure I can run an external 6 gallon marine tank on one of these and keep > a site up for 24 hours easy. > > > > So the next step up is the EU3000, which increases to 150lbs.. Still 100 > lbs lighter.. but.. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > *Peter Kranz*www.UnwiredLtd.com <http://www.unwiredltd.com/> > Desk: 510-868-1614 x100 > Mobile: 510-207-0000 > [email protected] > > >
