While it had been on our “delayed for maybe next year ‘To-Do’ List serendipity came along to help us out!
A neighbor who is moving to Europe posted on our community marketplace that they had a nearly new (total of 6hr run time) Honda EB2000i generator for sale at a VERY reasonable price. A quick phone call later we had a deal and we are now the owners of a VERY well kept VERY low time portable generator.
The “EB” part of the generator title denotes it as targeting the construction/contractor market crowd as its purportedly a little more robust and has a built-in GFIC capability.
Here are some of the general specs for those interested:
This aspects are actually desirable features to us for its intended utilization with Over Easy!
While we haven’t hoisted it aboard for a trial fit on Over Easy as yet by it appears to pass the eyeball check satisfactorily!
At nearly 55 lbs when fully fueled and oiled this isn’t a lightweight and will take a bit of thinking when it does come time to hoist it aboard. Initial thoughts are to make some sort of ‘mounting deck’ under the helm seat that would allow for the generator to transit crosswise but then allow it to turn 90 degrees (so the exhaust points aft) when running.
While this model generator doesn’t have a 12VDC output we figure it’s probably not an issue as we already have our automatic wall plug battery charger aboard to top up the batteries.
So far - So good!
Best Regards
Over Easy
