[Brittany Dogs]

Well I guess I went a little overboard but consider some of this info that I'm about to say comes from the day I owned my Coleman tent camper without an AC unit.

When I owned the Coleman, I purchased a Honda 2000i. It did everything and allowed my friends to plug in at the same time and charge their batteries. It also was a nice unit for when the power went off in town and it ran my furnace without blowing the furnace control board.

But after a few years I got tired of the 2000i size wise and purchased a Yamaha 1000 quiet unit as my second generator. It fit inside my Coleman and I took it on every trip. We always boon docked with the Coleman.

Then in 2011 we purchased the TrailManor. I was tossing several ideas around about selling my Honda 2000i and my Yamaha 1000 to purchase the Honda 3000i.

My Dad offered to let me use his Honda 2000i unless he needed it back for power outages. So I built a parallel kit and kept my own Honda and Yamaha and when I want to use AC I parallel the two Hondas. If I don't anticipate needing the AC, I leave the two Hondas at home and grab the Yamaha 1000.

I realize not all of us can own two generators and have a elderly Dad who can do a permanent loan of his Honda but by golly this arrangement can offer a lot of flexibility to my boon docking style camping. The Yamaha 1000 has been great for hunting camp too.

By the way, I make no claim that the Yamaha is no better or worse than the Honda units. They are both fantastic units and the inverter technology is worth every penny.

There are some cheaper inverter technology generators out there made by other manufacturers but the cheaper ones often do not have the added technology of lowering engine RPMs. They run at the loudest RPMs regardless of the load and well, what good is that?