At 11:38 AM 11/4/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote...
>We recently camped about 200 feet from an RV who had a Honda 1000
>generator... The folk in the camper ran the generator continuously
>for their air conditioning.

What RV A/C will run on 900W of power (the Honda EU1000i, which is the
small quiet one people are discussing, is rated 1000W peak, 900W
continuous)?

Most RV A/Cs seem to start at around 13,500 BTU, and want close to
1500W for continuous running, and much more when starting. (ref:
Carrier -
http://www.airv.carrier.com/Files/AirV/Local/US-en/customer_service/62-11187.pdf
) Dometic makes a 9000 BTU one, but even that wants over 1200W
continuous.

I suspect what you encountered wasn't actually one of the "super quiet"
model Hondas. People will often buy the contractor models, which are
quite noisy, because they're much cheaper.