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Back in February 2004, I purchased a cheap (NZ$800) 3,500 kVA Chinese Honda knock-off genset.
My friends laughed and said I was mad for buying "junk".
It's now 2011 and that wee genset is still going strong and has barely missed a beat. (I did once have to replace the Chinese sparkplug with a Japanese sparkplug, but that's it.)
If you try to run them 24/7, these Chinese models will probably fall apart, but for occasional use such as topping-up battery banks and running power tools, etc, they can be excellent.
(Oh, and one difference between the Chinese model and the equivalent Honda genset? Around 10-20 kg! More steel and copper in the Honda is my assumption.)
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