>>587037>toasterGo 2kW then. Those fuckers take a ton of juice. Don't have anything else hooked up to it either.
>faulty 'overload' issueMost inverters have problems with inductive loads... motors and coils. As weird as it sounds, putting a 100W incandescent bulb on the gen will help it run those motors/coils a little better - makes the total load less reactive.
Again, a Honda/Yamaha's going to pump out the rated wattage. The chinese stuff can be hit of miss. I've never had my ix2000 overload and I've powered two sled trailers at the same time (about 80 amps of total 12v battery charging, couple laptop/radio chargers, projector, TV).
>extra octane may cause build up due to unburnt fuelYea, that's why I often run lower octane through it. At my house (5400) it's fine on 91E0, in the mountains (10k+) it starts to puke.
Sled's got a 11-something gallon tank I'll burn most of in a good day of riding, truck's happier with the higher octane when I've got a trailer behind it. So I've usually got a significant quantity of 91-octane with me. Or on longer trips, I may burn the gallon in the generator plus the 5gal jug of 85E10, so it's 91 and pukey or no generator at all.
There's a place ~15 miles from my house that has 91E0 at the pump... they get a lot of business from me in the winter. I should talk to them about a sponsorship...
>warm upI mention that because a lot of people don't. To them, a generator's the portable version of what comes out of the wall in their house. And it's not.... Sounds like you get it, but not everyone else does.