We will be dry camping in our trailer and will be using a Honda 2000i and wanted to know is a surge protector needed when using the generator? Thanks for any help.
Wouldn't hurt, anything can happen. I always say if it was made by man it can break.
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Using a surge protector cetainly wouldn't hurt anything, but I would not be too concerned running it without one. I would not feel the same however, with a non-inverter type generator. Since the 2000i is an inverter type, the result is a nice smooth clean sine wave.
You won't get much of a surge out of a 2000w Honda generator. It is really only putting out 1800w, it goes up to 2000w only for short periods then the unit will reset itself and shut off. A 13.3 Amp surge shouldn't hurt anything.
I put my surge guard on when running the generator for only one real reason... if I run out of gas. The surge guard will cut off the circuit when voltage drops too low and won't go back on for a couple minutes once stabilized. Has only happened once because I didn't fill the genny tank. At the end it surged a couple times as it ran out of fuel.
Other than that the power from the inverter generators is very clean.
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The surge guard will cut off the circuit when voltage drops too low and won't go back on for a couple minutes once stabilized. Has only happened once because I didn't fill the genny tank. At the end it surged a couple times as it ran out of fuel.
