Has nothing to do with being cheap. The difference between top quality clones and a Yamaha/Honda has been shrinking every year. You simply chose to ignore that fact. 20 years ago, there was a huge difference, no more. Just like Hyundai 20 or 30 years ago, they were a POS, but today? huge difference, they are inching closer to the Japanese, and way ahead of North American.
I posted earlier that even Honda is manufacturing in China and Thailand. It's no longer brand or where they are made. You justify it to yourself any way you want, but the difference in quality of construction and output waveform these days is trivial, and the biggest difference is price.
I also mentioned noise from inductive loads. Do you carefully select your appliances an chose the ones with power factors closest to 1.0? Do you screen every electric motor you have so that it's "clean" with low harmonics? How about lighting, meaning no florescent, or anything with electronic ballasts. How about battery chargers? Even the tiny ones for phones have terrible power factors. What does this all mean? Everything you plug into a generator injects back into the system dozens of times dirtier power than even the worst generator itself outputs.
I never said to get the absolute cheapest one out there, but one of the couple top clones.
Since you enjoy spending 2 to 3 times as much for the big name, go for it.
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