Posted: 11/15/2009 12:47:41 PM EDT
So i was convienced i needed a couple of EU2000 hondas. One problem they dont seem to have 220v. I need 220 to run my well pump. Or am i missing something? If no 220 on eu2000 what would be next best choice?
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"Small" capacity generators (less than 4,000 watts) are almost always 120V only. Something like this is likely the smallest size gen you will find with a 240V outlet. How many watts do you need to start/run your pump?
So i was convienced i needed a couple of EU2000 hondas. One problem they dont seem to have 220v. I need 220 to run my well pump. Or am i missing something? If no 220 on eu2000 what would be next best choice? ETA: ...for a few more $ you can get one of these... OR, in true ARFCOM fashion, you could get one of each (one Honda (120v) & one Briggs (120&240v))... 
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"Small" capacity generators (less than 4,000 watts) are almost always 120V only. Something like this is likely the smallest size gen you will find with a 240V outlet. How many watts do you need to start/run your pump?
So i was convienced i needed a couple of EU2000 hondas. One problem they dont seem to have 220v. I need 220 to run my well pump. Or am i missing something? If no 220 on eu2000 what would be next best choice? You can barely carry gas to one of these in a five gallon can. My son used one after Hurricane Ike for a week and it ate him out of house and home. It drank Gasoline like Otis from Mayberry. |
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"Small" capacity generators (less than 4,000 watts) are almost always 120V only. Something like this is likely the smallest size gen you will find with a 240V outlet. How many watts do you need to start/run your pump?
So i was convienced i needed a couple of EU2000 hondas. One problem they dont seem to have 220v. I need 220 to run my well pump. Or am i missing something? If no 220 on eu2000 what would be next best choice? You can barely carry gas to one of these in a five gallon can. My son used one after Hurricane Ike for a week and it ate him out of house and home. It drank Gasoline like Otis from Mayberry. 12 hours at 50% load on 4gal of gas isnt that bad for a genny that size. not sure what he was doing that it needed that much fuel. he must have been running a large load on it. |
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"Small" capacity generators (less than 4,000 watts) are almost always 120V only. Something like this is likely the smallest size gen you will find with a 240V outlet. How many watts do you need to start/run your pump?
So i was convienced i needed a couple of EU2000 hondas. One problem they dont seem to have 220v. I need 220 to run my well pump. Or am i missing something? If no 220 on eu2000 what would be next best choice? You can barely carry gas to one of these in a five gallon can. My son used one after Hurricane Ike for a week and it ate him out of house and home. It drank Gasoline like Otis from Mayberry. 12 hours at 50% load on 4gal of gas isnt that bad for a genny that size. not sure what he was doing that it needed that much fuel. he must have been running a large load on it. It drank 5 gallon in 12 hours was so loud he couldn't sleep with it running (we tried the AplhaRubicon muffler hack but it seems that valve train and intake noise is just as bad) and the power was so dirty that he burned up a fridge. My hondas will run for days on 5 gallons of gas running the fridge and a few lights. Run Ole' Thirsty just long enough to get well water up and into some water containers than shut that thing down. We bought the Hondas after that as we saw the flaw in the cheap loud ones. |
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I though I had seen some parallel kits already. Seems like they were parallel kits for 120V- in other words the ad said "these are limited in power by the receptacles used" or something like that (all of the receptacles were 120V). I wasn't sure what the big advantage of that would be. If the gensets were in parallel with regards to frequency, phase angle etc. seems like in an emergency 240V could be obtained from the 2 gensets. Not sure what type of indication there is to show the units are paralleling correctly though.
To the avove poster, can you give us an idea what the product will do and what type of termination will be available? 
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I though I had seen some parallel kits already. Seems like they were parallel kits for 120V- in other words the ad said "these are limited in power by the receptacles used" or something like that (all of the receptacles were 120V). I wasn't sure what the big advantage of that would be. If the gensets were in parallel with regards to frequency, phase angle etc. seems like in an emergency 240V could be obtained from the 2 gensets. Not sure what type of indication there is to show the units are paralleling correctly though. To the avove poster, can you give us an idea what the product will do and what type of termination will be available? Here is the post, you can follow the developments here Honda EU2000i 240v parallel kit |