[hitchup]

For the same price as 2 Honda 2000si Gen, we went with a Yamaha 6600 gas. We only bought a generator because while in North Charleston last summer, the power went out in the whole park for 3 Sundays in a row. We were forced to evacuate & go shopping just to stay cool. We tried the biggest Gen (a 5000w) they had from HomeDep & it wouldn't run our 15,000 low profile AC unit. It went back real quick. The 4th Sunday, only our row lost power & we decided we would get a bigger generator as soon as we had the money.
We must have had a pretty mild winter in NC, because we didn't lose power once. But we did test runs on both the 5th wheels: TV's, furnace, space heaters, fans, dryer, whatever I could turn on. I can't imagine the Honda would run a MS or ES, winter or summer.
We haven't installed it in our basement gen area. It rides in the pickup bed behind the toolbox, out-of-site under the rollup bed cover. It used to sit under one of the slides, but they are HEAVY & when we relocated, didn't want to drag it down. We use the Gen space for a few tools & misc.