Top 10 Inverter Generators

Gaso­line gen­er­a­tors have become very much in demand as they can pow­er almost any elec­tri­cal device. A large selec­tion of mod­els allows you to choose the best option for any task — from a mobile gen­er­a­tor for use on hikes to a pow­er­ful sta­tion that can pro­vide elec­tric­i­ty to the whole house. At the same time, all gas gen­er­a­tors are divid­ed into two large groups — con­ven­tion­al and invert­er. The lat­ter are more expen­sive, but at the same time they have a num­ber of advan­tages, which makes them more pop­u­lar with buy­ers. Below are the top 10 invert­er gen­er­a­tors for 2022 and rec­om­men­da­tions for choos­ing them.

How to choose a good inverter generator

To choose a good invert­er-type gaso­line gen­er­a­tor, you should study the impor­tant para­me­ters that affect its oper­a­tion, but first you need to under­stand how such devices dif­fer from con­ven­tion­al ones and what their advan­tages are.

What is the difference between inverter and conventional generator

Con­ven­tion­al gaso­line gen­er­a­tors con­sist of coils that accu­mu­late the volt­age cre­at­ed by the rotor rotat­ing when the fuel is burned. The pecu­liar­i­ty of such devices lies in the fact that they must have a high num­ber of rev­o­lu­tions in order to ensure a sta­ble sup­ply of elec­tric cur­rent. These mod­els are avail­able in a wide range, they are inex­pen­sive, easy to use and have a reli­able design with a long ser­vice life. The dis­ad­van­tages are low effi­cien­cy with high fuel con­sump­tion, as well as increased noise lev­els.

Invert­er devices, in turn, have a more advanced and mod­ern design. Their main advan­tage is that they are able to auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjust the speed, that is, even with a low num­ber of rev­o­lu­tions, they give out a clean cur­rent with­out jumps and with an even ampli­tude. In addi­tion, they are qui­eter, more fuel effi­cient and more com­pact. The dis­ad­van­tages include high price, design com­plex­i­ty, which leads to dif­fi­cul­ties dur­ing repairs, as well as lim­it­ed pow­er, not exceed­ing 8 kW, despite the fact that con­ven­tion­al gen­er­a­tors can gen­er­ate cur­rent with a pow­er of up to 100 kW.

Criterias of choice

Hav­ing dealt with the advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages, you can move on to spe­cif­ic selec­tion cri­te­ria.

1. Scope of appli­ca­tion. Con­ven­tion­al gaso­line mod­els are more in demand where they will work con­tin­u­ous­ly and high pow­er is required, for exam­ple, at a con­struc­tion site. Due to the high-qual­i­ty cur­rent, invert­ers are bet­ter suit­ed for house­hold appli­ances, and there­fore they are more often pur­chased for the home.
2. Load. As a rule, at home, many types of equip­ment are used peri­od­i­cal­ly, that is, the load on the gen­er­a­tor is con­stant­ly chang­ing. For con­ven­tion­al gen­er­a­tors, this is bad, as it leads to rapid wear of inter­nal ele­ments, and fuel will be wast­ed. The invert­er itself is able to reg­u­late the speed to increase or decrease pow­er in order to cope with vari­able loads, and there­fore, if they are vari­able, it is bet­ter to choose it.
3. Con­nect­ed equip­ment. Invert­er mod­els pro­duce direct cur­rent, clas­sic ones pro­duce alter­nat­ing cur­rent. Accord­ing­ly, elec­tri­cal con­sumers also have dif­fer­ent cur­rent require­ments. If the equip­ment is pow­ered by alter­nat­ing cur­rent, then you need a clas­sic gas gen­er­a­tor, if you need direct cur­rent, then you should choose an invert­er mod­el.

Inexpensive

The first part of the top is the top three most inex­pen­sive mod­els on the mar­ket.

1. Huter DN1500i new

Sin­gle-phase invert­er-type gaso­line gen­er­a­tor with syn­chro­nous oper­a­tion prin­ci­ple. It cre­ates a cur­rent of 1200 watts, has a 353.5 cc engine with a four-stroke cylin­der. The num­ber of its rev­o­lu­tions is 5500 per minute. The vol­ume of the fuel tank is 4.2 liters, AI-92 gaso­line can be used. It is air cooled. The mod­el has a silencer and the noise lev­el it pro­duces reach­es 73 dB. Weight — 13 kg, wheels are pro­vid­ed for move­ment, there is a 220 V out­let on the body.

Advan­tages:

• small;
• light;
• qual­i­ty con­struc­tion.

Flaws:

• miss­ing.

Cus­tomer Reviews

RS Real Estate In terms of price-qual­i­ty ratio, I think it’s a good option. Small and easy to car­ry in one hand.

alex­ey s. Every­thing is work­ing. The set is even larg­er than indi­cat­ed in the instruc­tions!

2. PATRIOT GP 1000i

Mobile gaso­line invert­er gen­er­a­tor with man­u­al start and silencer. It is not afraid of over­loads and is cooled by air. The mod­el is asyn­chro­nous and with one phase. Max­i­mum pow­er — 0.9 kW, cur­rent strength — 4 A. The vol­ume of the engine in this mod­el is 40 cubic meters. cm, pow­er — 1.3 horse­pow­er, it is a four-stroke and sin­gle-cylin­der. The gen­er­a­tor con­sump­tion is 0.4 l / h, the tank vol­ume is 2.1 liters, and there­fore the bat­tery life is about 5 hours. The mod­el gen­er­ates 58 dB of noise, is equipped with two sock­ets for 12 and 220 V, the weight of the device is 9 kg, and a con­ve­nient han­dle is pro­vid­ed for car­ry­ing.

Advan­tages:

• light;
• low noise lev­el;
• easy to oper­ate.

Flaws:

• hard to change oil.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Albert Light­weight, weighs about 9 kg. Con­sumes lit­tle gaso­line in eco mode. Low noise. Bought 4 years ago for 14000.

tony.pony Light­weight unlike sim­i­lar invert­ers for 700‑1000 watts. Eco­nom­i­cal. Qui­et.

3. ELITECH BIG 1000R

Sin­gle-phase invert­er mod­el with man­u­al starter, air-cooled volt­age sta­bi­liz­er. She has a 54 cc engine with one four-stroke cylin­der, pow­er — 1.9 horse­pow­er. It con­sumes 0.6 liters of fuel per hour; AI-92 brand can be poured into it. The gas tank is designed for 3.5 liters, it lasts for 6 hours. The mod­el gen­er­ates a cur­rent of 1 kW at a cur­rent of 3.9 A. The case is pro­tect­ed accord­ing to the IP23 stan­dard, its weight is 15 kg, it has two sock­ets for 12 and 220 V, as well as a USB out­put. Noise lev­el — 58 dB.

Advan­tages:

• eco­nom­i­cal con­sump­tion of gaso­line;
• light;
• qui­et;
• easy start.

Flaws:

• miss­ing.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Dmit­ry Life has become much eas­i­er! If ear­li­er hon­ey took two days with a fight from the bees, now it is two or three hours of work. And osnom­nom load­ing, and not shak­ing the bees off the frame!!! Bee­keep­ers will under­stand me and my joy!
Decent device!

Boris Saveliev It would cost 5–8 tr. cheap­er nuance with pro­tec­tion could be for­giv­en. BUT, con­nect­ing each elec­tri­cal device to the net­work is a lot­tery. Over­load and you go to restart the gen­er­a­tor.

Price quality

The rat­ing will con­tin­ue with the best mod­els that can offer the max­i­mum for their cost.

1. Fubag TI 1000 (838978)

Com­pact portable mod­el with com­fort­able han­dle and man­u­al starter, air-cooled. Legs with vibra­tion dampers guar­an­tee sta­bil­i­ty, its design is pro­tect­ed accord­ing to the IP23 stan­dard. For con­nec­tion there are out­puts of 12 and 220 V. The weight of the device is 16 kg. The gen­er­a­tor is sin­gle-phase, gen­er­ates a cur­rent of 1 kW at a pow­er of 4.1 A. Its engine has one four-stroke cylin­der. Its vol­ume is 53 cubic meters. cm, pow­er — 2 hp, num­ber of rev­o­lu­tions — 3000. It con­sumes 0.8 liters of AI-92 fuel per hour. The tank holds 2.1 liters. Noise lev­el — 56 dB.

Advan­tages:

• qui­et;
• small;
• qual­i­ty assem­bly;
• sta­ble work.

Flaws:

• miss­ing.

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Sergey S. Light, small, qui­et. It stands rum­bles in the bush­es, doing its job)
Easy start and very infor­ma­tive.

Denis Har­lap When you first start do not for­get to fill the oil! Not filled from the fac­to­ry.
Yes .. and pour into the crankcase and not into the gas tank)) All the same, 4T after all)

2. LIFAN 0.9GZFB

Invert­er elec­tric gen­er­a­tor with one phase and man­u­al starter. It is asyn­chro­nous, not afraid of over­loads and gen­er­ates a cur­rent of 1 kW. It uses a 79.5cc four-stroke engine. cm with a pow­er of 2.5 hp The device is air-cooled, con­sumes 0.56 liters of gaso­line per hour. The vol­ume of the tank is 3.5 liters. There are 12 and 220 V sock­ets on the case. The noise lev­el reach­es 54 dB. Weight — 17 kg.

Advan­tages:

• qui­et;
• com­pact;
• sta­ble work.

Flaws:

• case assem­bly curve;
• heavy.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Igor B. In gen­er­al, the atti­tude is twofold, the qual­i­ty is about aver­age, you need to ride it in the field, but for those who think that you can for­give its weight and assem­bly curve for the price (I con­sid­er myself one of these), you can take it. For those who love the qual­i­ty out of the box, I do not advise. In gen­er­al, the gene works.

Name hid­den After read­ing reviews about a bad first run, I imme­di­ate­ly picked up and ordered a Brisk P17Y spark plug (P17 can be).
After the arrival of the gen­er­a­tor, I unscrewed the can­dle — Auto­lite with a curved elec­trode and a gap of 1.5 mm with the rec­om­mend­ed 0.6–0.7 mm.
On Brisk, it start­ed up right away and works with­out prob­lems.

3. Denzel GT-3500iF

Invert­er sin­gle-phase gas gen­er­a­tor, designed for sta­tion­ary use. Its body is pro­tect­ed accord­ing to the IP23 stan­dard, there are rub­ber­ized legs designed to damp­en vibra­tion. It weighs 27 kg, there are two 220 and 12 V sock­ets on the case. In addi­tion, the mod­el is equipped with volt­age indi­ca­tors and a low oil lev­el. The gen­er­a­tor has an asyn­chro­nous type of oper­a­tion, is pro­tect­ed from over­loads, and is start­ed man­u­al­ly. Its pow­er is 3.5 kW, the cur­rent strength is 8.3 A. The engine capac­i­ty is 212 cubic meters. cm, pow­er — 7 horse­pow­er, fuel con­sump­tion — 1.1 liters per hour. The gas tank is designed for 5 liters of fuel. Four stroke engine. Noise lev­el dur­ing oper­a­tion — 97 dB.

Advan­tages:

• easy to start;
• well assem­bled;
• pow­er­ful;
• easy to use.

Flaws:

• noisy.

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Vic­to­ria I. On the mar­ket, as well as on the box, and at the sta­tion itself it is writ­ten — the tank capac­i­ty is 5 liters. In fact, 4 liters just entered the cork itself. I hope they didn’t cheat with pow­er …? And so the sta­tion is not bad, it works gen­tly

Sergei Alek­see­vich Beglyakov In gen­er­al, among many gen­er­a­tors of this class, this one is the third one for me, and sur­pris­ing­ly does not cause hem­or­rhoids in one place with all sorts of chil­dren’s sores

4. Daewoo Power Products GDA 2600i

A fair­ly pow­er­ful invert­er sin­gle-phase gas gen­er­a­tor with a man­u­al starter. It is asyn­chro­nous type, pro­tect­ed against over­loads, deliv­ers a cur­rent of 2.2 kW and a force of 16 A. It has a four-stroke sin­gle-cylin­der engine with a dis­place­ment of 138 cc and a pow­er of 4 horse­pow­er. The vol­ume of the fuel tank is 4 liters. The mod­el pro­duces 64 dB of noise, weighs 21 kg, has two 220 V sock­ets on the case, and is mount­ed on rub­ber feet to damp­en vibra­tion.

Advan­tages:

• pow­er­ful;
• build qual­i­ty;
• qui­et;
• con­ve­nient to oper­ate.

Flaws:

• miss­ing.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Sergei Tikhanov invert­er. With­out a plas­tic cas­ing, the price is cheap­er. Pro­tec­tive frame around the perime­ter of the gen­er­a­tor made of thick met­al. 2 kW con­sump­tion pro­vides.

Oleg Abramov I wrote the main above.

In gen­er­al, among the invert­ers in terms of price and char­ac­ter­is­tics, it is quite an ade­quate mod­el. Every­thing seems to be good in terms of qual­i­ty. We will see. There will be a rea­son to write more.

Best

The top three of the best invert­er gen­er­a­tors on the mar­ket will close the rat­ing.

1. Honda EU10i

Portable sin­gle-phase mod­el with a cur­rent of 1 kW and a pow­er of 3.9 A. It is asyn­chro­nous type, man­u­al­ly start­ed, has a 220 V sock­et. The device is pro­tect­ed against over­loads, the case has noise reduc­tion, and is also pro­tect­ed accord­ing to the IP23 stan­dard. There is also a silencer in it, and there­fore the noise lev­el is only 52 dB. The mod­el is equipped with a four-stroke engine with one cylin­der of 50 cubic meters. It has a pow­er of 2.1 horse­pow­er, makes 4500 rev­o­lu­tions. The fuel tank capac­i­ty is 2.1 liters, which is enough for 8 hours of oper­a­tion.

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• light;
• qui­et work;
• low fuel con­sump­tion.

Flaws:

• miss­ing.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Igor B. After a short depres­sion caused by spend­ing such a sum, I try to enjoy it to the max­i­mum.
Dur­ing the break-in slight­ly pod­traival. At tem­per­a­tures around zero, you still need to pull a few times, in warm weath­er it starts up just beau­ti­ful­ly.

Yuri Zaslavsky It’s nice to have a qual­i­ty thing and not think about whether it will start, won’t start, let you down or not! It has not failed in 22 years nirazu!

2. PATRIOT GP 3000i

Pow­er­ful mod­el of asyn­chro­nous type with one phase. It is start­ed man­u­al­ly, has over­load pro­tec­tion and pro­vides a cur­rent of 3.5 kW. The engine is a four-stroke sin­gle-cylin­der, its vol­ume is 149 cc. The fuel tank holds 5.7 liters of gaso­line. There are two sock­ets 220 V and one 12 V on the case. The noise lev­el dur­ing oper­a­tion does not exceed 63 dB. The device weighs 30 kg.

Advan­tages:

• pow­er­ful;
• com­pact;
• sta­ble work;
• eco­nom­i­cal fuel con­sump­tion.

Flaws:

• incon­ve­nient oil fill­ing.

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Valery Samoilenko Works sta­bly. It has been work­ing for a week every day (I am doing repairs in the house). Eco­nom­i­cal. I rec­om­mend.

Azatb The gen­er­a­tor met all expec­ta­tions. He copes with his task.

3. Huter DY6500LXW

Pow­er­ful invert­er-type gaso­line gen­er­a­tor with syn­chro­nous oper­a­tion and sin­gle phase. It pro­duces a cur­rent of 5.5 kW. The mod­el is start­ed man­u­al­ly and by means of an elec­tric starter, it has over­load pro­tec­tion and a built-in volt­meter. The engine has a pow­er of 15 horse­pow­er, it is a four-stroke with one cylin­der. The fuel tank holds 22 liters of gaso­line, there are a pair of 220 V and one 12 V sock­ets on the body. The noise lev­el dur­ing oper­a­tion is 71 dB. The gen­er­a­tor weighs 72 kg, for ease of trans­porta­tion it has wheels.

Advan­tages:

• pow­er­ful;
• reli­able;
• build qual­i­ty;
• easy to start;
• eco­nom­i­cal ener­gy con­sump­tion.

Flaws:

• miss­ing.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Sergey a. I plowed the whole sum­mer sea­son like a bee, from morn­ing to evening. Start­ed with half a turn. Sat­is­fied.

Semy­on A. Sat­is­fac­to­ri­ly welds thick steel with a 4 mm elec­trode at a cur­rent of 180 amperes.