As a follow-on to this thread. The HF low cost generator is a bit small and noisy for some uses. Some of the solid state chargers don't get along with it!
Home Depot had a sale recently on a Ryobi 2000i inverter generator that I could not resist buying.
It's about 1/2 the cost of the comparable Honda unit, and when you look at the innards, so similar that the engine must either be a copy or from the same mfr.
Very quiet, although some of the Honda 2000i's are slightly quieter. After about two hours of run in, the engine usually starts with an average of two to three pulls.
(One or two at a slow rate to turn things over, and one or two to actually start. Once run, a shut down for fuel, etc., and restart usually takes one to two pulls.
Voltage regulation is much better than the HF, and the inverter allows a slower engine speed under a light load. I wish that the starting handle was a bit larger,
since I can get only three of my fingers on it..