Honda generator EU20i - anyone got one?

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presumably these have to be used outdoors due to the exhaust....

[/ QUOTE ] Also due to petrol fumes. If enclosed, you must be absolutely sure there's no way petrol or exhaust fumes can creep into the accommodation - vents from the enclosure must be overboard.

Nasty stories about outboards stored in lazarettes - slight petrol leakage - fumes drain into main boat bilges - a relay operates with a small spark - you can guess the rest.

Oh, and that mains charger, sounds great, though I don't know the type. Remaining question - how does it connect to the individual banks . . .

But you'll have mains available in Malta, so further q's are all in slow time . . .
 
The reason they can synch these generators to other EU machines is that they are invertor-based, not direct output from a shaft-driven alternator. What seems to happen is that a fairly crude electrical supply is generated from the engine which feeds a high-performance invertor. The design of invertors is such that it is very easy to synchronise the driving oscillator.
 
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The reason they can synch these generators to other EU machines is that they are invertor-based

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Yeah, makes sense. Makes you wonder why the sync cable is £145 then...

Rick
 
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Yeah, makes sense. Makes you wonder why the sync cable is £145 then...

Rick

[/ QUOTE ]In a word - Honda /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif No need to wonder.
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I bought a Kawasaki portable. Only 1.4 KW but now in its 19th year and still going strong. Expensive at the time but its long life and reliability have made up for that.
 
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Does anyone have experience of working two gennies (eg 2 x EU10i) together to increase the capacity? Is it simply a case of wiring the pos and neg from each together?

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No direct experience, but Honda do a kit to parallel 2 EU20i's together. They may do one for the EU10i too.

It is NOT a case of "wiring the pos and neg together".

Normally you cannot parallel two generators together as they would not be in phase. However, as I understand it the Honda kit causes each generators inverter to be in phase with the other. (The Honda system is essentially a frequency wild generator feeding a high quality sinusoidal output inverter).
 
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(The Honda system is essentially a frequency wild generator feeding a high quality sinusoidal output inverter).

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"Boom Boom!!" as Basil Brush would say, (or was it Bum Bum!?).
 
Good punch-line innit.

The gennys I deal with at work kick out about 90kVa...

Trouble is very few boats would have the power to drive them. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
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The gennys I deal with at work kick out about 90kVa...

Trouble is very few boats would have the power to drive them. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[/ QUOTE ]Do they have inverter outputs at those power levels? Though with two Hondas we are talking about 4kVA, not to be sneezed at.
 
No, they have a constant speed drive. They are three phase output and need a Rolls-Royce Trent to drive them.

Luckily Mr Boeing fits a Trent under each wing specially to drive the generators.

The engine guys reckon their engine makes the plane fly. This is nonsense, as the crew will not take the aeroplane if there is no electrickery................ /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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