Currently I have a Honda 2000. I have heard that if you take two of them you can get a plug that makes it 4,000.
Has anyone done this? How does it work?
Will it run an AC in a trailer?

I am either thinking about buying another 2,000 or selling my 2,000 and buying a 3500. What do you think?

BTW what would an extremely low hour 2000 sell for used these days if I did sell it?


Thank you

Brandon

You might want to try putting a "hard start capacitor" on you AC. I did this on our 15k and it can now run on the 2k Honda. 50 bucks saves you buyin a new gen. The 2000 will be running hard. A digital thermostat also helps. We have a 3k Honda also but it's nice to use the 2k sometimes.

You just bundle them together, then run both when running a AC, 4kw is more then enough for a standard 13.5 or 15k AC
Your better off with the two seperate units, easy to manuver, and if you don't need ac you can run one, and get great gas savings...
I have a 5500 and that thing sucks gas when running, even just tv's and such...

They have one called the Companion. I think it's ready to hook to your current gen.

I should say the 2000's do get noisy quick when under load. The 3000 is better for continuous duty and quieter.

can you give us more info. on that?

I've ran them in parallel, works fine. I didn't pay the $200 or so for the special connector. I built my own box with two high amp pigtails, a 30 amp RV plug, and an electrical box..total about $40 from Lowes. With generators off, plug in the male end of one of the pigtails into one gen, the other into the second. Start generators one at a time, and off you go. The thing you have to be careful with is if one of the plugs were to come out of one of the generators while the other is running, as the end of the plug will be hot. Not a good thing if you allow kids to play around your gen sets, or let someone help you who doesn't understand what is to be done. (which I don't)

I'd say you could probably sell a lightly used 2000 for right at $700 fairly quickly.

Here's an article:

Hardstart Cap

Takes about 1/2 hour to do. This gives you about 500 times the starting power on your AC. The start current is what gives most generators trouble. Newer AC units only need about 15amps or less continuous. Most AC supply houses sell this part. They also have one that gives you instant restart.

After I made this change I could run my 15k AC on a 2000 Honda.

I think we have a new AC sponser on the board. Maybe he can chime in and fill in the gaps I'm missing.

Seems like there would need to be something to keep them in phase with each other.

I'm surprised and curious how this worked.

Jim...the first generator of the pair you start becomes the "master", and the second slaves off of it. They are electronically controlled. You can't do this with "any" generator, but the Eu honda series are designed to do this.

Was just reading about this a little. Seems you can also hook 2 different sizes together even though they say not too. Very cool to know.

Thanks

I have two Honda EU2000 One is a companion. My AC is 15K BTU. They run the AC, micro and all the lights with no problem and at low idle, You can hear the gen's kick up for a second when the AC cycles, other than that they are at low idle.
Last trip they ran 24 hours a day for three days, not one issue. The "cool'" thing was when we got back from a ride our dogs and MH were very cool with the AC on.