I just purchased a Honda EU2000i for dry camping and power outages. This may be a silly question but can I connect the camper power cord directly to the Honda (via a 30 - 15 amp adapter)? I realize that I won't be able to run the A/C but will it run the lights, fridge, small fan or small electric heater, tv, and also charge the battery? I don't want to harm the generator or the camper. Didn't know if I would need to run a seperate power cord into the camper from the Honda or if the camper could be plugged directly into the generator.
Yes you can connect it directly with the dog bone and it doesn't matter how you connect a cord to that genset...it's not powerful enough to run any AC except maybe a super small window unit. You would require a second unit or bigger genset.
Thanks for the responses. So will everything run okay with a small cereamic heater going? I have read that "heat producing" appliances can cause problems. Think I can run lights, fridge, tv, and cereamic heater with 2000 watts?
The EU2000 is 2,000 watts PEAK. It is 1,600 watts for the long term. You can figure out what can be run by adding up the wattages of what you want to run. You need to find out how many watts your heater uses. Heaters are usually "tough" not because they are heaters but because it is not uncommon for a portable heater to be 1,500 watts by itself. It is usually more effective to use your propane furnace or use propane powered catalytic heaters. If your heater has multiple heat settings it should be OK on the Honda at a lower setting. But you won't get much heat either. IMHO using the generator to make heat is pretty inefficient.
I agree with roinrolnroln, it will cost you more to run a heater and the fridge, in my opinon, than to use propane. The fridge is nothing more than a heating element. A 20 lb propane tank will run you camper for a couple of weeks easily, and cheaper than the extra fuel for the genny.
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Peg Leg wrote: I agree with roinrolnroln, it will cost you more to run a heater and the fridge, in my opinon, than to use propane. The fridge is nothing more than a heating element. A 20 lb propane tank will run you camper for a couple of weeks easily, and cheaper than the extra fuel for the genny.
You wouldn't want to use the Honda generator just to power the fridge -- its gasoline usage would be more expensive than running the fridge on propane. However, if you're running the generator for battery charging, etc., it's economical to put the fridge on electric power during that time. It uses only about 125 watts of 120 volt power, and that only part time, since it cycles off when the box is cold enough.
It is much more effecient to run the propane furnace than to run an electric heater off a generator (MUCH more gasoline vs the amount of propane used).
With the furnace, you only have to run the generator a couple of hours to recharge the 12v power used by the furnace blower motor. With the electric heater, the generator must run at full throttle constantly.
Same goes for the fridge. MUCH, MUCH more effecient on propane.
Personally, I heat my rig with a portable Big Buddy heater (tied into the RV propane system) that require no electric power at all.
My generator ONLY gets used to recharge the batteries or to run appliances that ONLY run on 120v like the microwave and the A/C. Anything that CAN run on propane gets RUN on propane (fridge, furnace, water heater, etc).
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