Honda EU22i 2200W Inverter Generator review
Households wanting a genuinely reliable, quiet petrol generator for occasional blackout backup, caravanning or running sensitive electronics.
By Tom Calder
The EU22i is about as good as a small portable generator gets: quiet, well built and its inverter output is clean enough for laptops, routers and medical kit. It is a premium price for occasional use, but for a resilience buy that has to start first time after months in the shed, few things match Honda's reliability.
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- True inverter (pure sine) power that safely runs sensitive electronics, unlike cheap open-frame generators
- Very quiet for a petrol generator (around 48 dB at low load, ~57 dB at full load) and light at ~21 kg
- Honda reliability and parts support, with up to a 5-year domestic warranty (subject to annual servicing)
- Costs three to four times more than budget inverter generators of similar wattage
- Advertised 8-hour runtime is at quarter load; expect closer to 3.5 hours at or near full output, and you must store petrol and only ever run it outdoors
Who shouldn't buy this
Don't buy if you only need to keep phones, lights and a router going through a short outage: a battery power station is fume-free, near-silent and safe to use indoors, with no petrol to store. Petrol generators must run outdoors, well away from windows, because of carbon monoxide risk.
Key specs
| Running power | 1,800 W |
| Fuel | Petrol |
| Runtime | 8.1 hr |
| Noise | 57 dB |
| Inverter | Yes |
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