is the way to go. I use one on the boat and easily brought it ashore after Irene last year and used it for the refrigerator/freezer for 5 days. It ran for 6-8 hrs on 1.2 gal of gas. It ran at idle doing this. It's very efficient. The only problem with the Honda is changing the pull cord. It seems that they built the entire unit around the starter/pulley system.