Honda EU1000i
Honda EU1000i Portable Generator
You are looking at the first "inverter" generator ever made. When Honda came out with the EU1000i, they made both the EX1000 and the EX650 obsolete. At under thirty pounds, it is lighter and more powerful than the EX650 and lighter and much quieter than the old EX1000. The inverter design allows Honda to replace traditional brushes with a small and lightweight microchip. This chip "inverts" every other cycle of the DC power generated by the engine - making it into a very clean AC power supply. The other advantage to this chip over brushes is that it is cheaper to mass produce and of course cheaper to ship.
The Honda EU1000i is a very portable generator and is ideal when you only need a smaller amount of power and you want to bring it to a remote place. It is much easier for the average person to carry the Honda EU1000i than the Honda EU2000i, and it takes up less space. The Honda EU1000i can be found anywhere from running computers in Antarctica to running a blender at a Jimmy Buffet concert in Arizona to running an ice fisherman's heater in Alberta.
Official EU1000i Specs