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I also have an Eu-2000 onboard. My engine doesn’t make hot water unless its running under load. At that, it takes a couple of hours to heat the 15gal water tank. This is great when cruising. There’s enough hot water for showers and dishes, but after a day sitting at anchor the hot water is gone. I use the generator to make more. I don’t really need it to charge the batteries. It also comes in handy for running the microwave. Though the microwave works when run from the inverter, it doesn’t really run at full power. I can’t make popcorn and the recipe on frozen food packages doesn’t work.
When making hot water, the generator runs at full power. This is about as noisy as any other generator out there. When making hot water, I start it up and leave the boat for about an hour. As soon as the water is hot, the generator cycles down to low speed. The thing is small, very reliable, and starts easy. It fits under my cockpit table. If my charging system failed, the generator could serve as a backup.
The honda generator will go through a tank of gas in a couple of days. Since the tank isn’t removable, I have to lug the whole generator to the gas dock. This is the only drawback I can think of. You can hook up an external tank through a special fuel tank cap. This isn’t very practical on the boat but works pretty well as a backup at home. With a 6gal external tank, it will run for days during a power outage.
The Eu-2000 isn’t really designed for marine applications. I sent Honda a letter with recommendations to improve the product for use on boats but they pretty much ignored my suggestions, removable tank, mounting option, better exhaust. At about $1000, it’s on the expensive side but well worth the expense. Best price I found was
http://www.wisesales.com/eu2000ia-companion-honda-generator.htmlIf you tell them that you are a ham radio operator, they give an additional discount.
Rich
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Rich,
I’m no expert on boat water heaters, but it sounds like yours may not be working very well – or else you just like seriously scalding hot water. I get the water in Silverheels’ tank as hot as I can stand to shower in, which is as hot as I can imagine ever needing it, in about 20 minutes via either the engine or the generator (or less, depending on the air temperature). If it’s taking you an hour, maybe something’s wrong with the heater? Is it original?
As for schlepping your Honda generator to the fuel dock and back every couple of days, is there a reason you don’t just cart a couple of gallons of gasoline to the boat in a jerry jug and pour it in? (I get that some don’t want jerry jugs full of gas on a boat for safety reasons, but for cruising off the US marina grid it’s pretty much unavoidable. I carry at least 10 gallons for the outboard and generator, and use a siphon hose to fill the latter in the cockpit.)
As for a marinized Honda EU2000, wouldn’t that be nice! I have replaced most of the rusting screws in mine with stainless and I keep it covered much of the time it’s not being used, which probably helps to preserve it a little. Just sold my old one, still running perfectly after 5 years hard usage, and will buy a new replacement before heading south again. I think I’m going to install an inline fuel filter this time, between the tank and the carburetor.
Tor
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