[bestgenman]

Marc, I am biased since Jim Martin is a personal friend and we are a service center for Martin.  Newell is using Martin which says a lot.  I've worked on both and prefer the Yanmar engine over the Kubota simply because they are direct injection.

Currently I'm using a pure sine wave 3KW Xantrex and it is performing well.  The Outback and Magnum also seem to be good units however, I defer to more experienced users on this forum.