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I have no experience with the Honda conversion but have used several different small gensets for a number of years and found them to be very good. One big advantage is the simple design compared to carb.
Thinking of what it takes to run something, it has to be a gas. Lots of confusion about liquid gas burning as it is the gas just above which burns. So in engines we have to inject the correct gas air mix to get it to work. That makes it more complex to do compared to propane which is gas by nature.
When working underground sites, the generators and motors I have used/been around have often been propane as it is safer to handle and store on trucks and such.
There ARE different problems with using propane as mentioned. Keeping the tanks and regs from getting too cold and losing pressure or freezing the reg is one. The solutions for us was to arrange blower hoses normally used to push air into the underground, so that it also pushed some air to the tank and reg to keep them warm.
We also put a tent over the tank and backed a truck to run the exhaust in for heating the tank.
When REALLY cold, we had to go with adding a tube from the exhaust back to the tank, but that is pretty extreme and not a time when we had a choice about being there or bailing out!
If camped, I would have been long gone before I got that cold!
It seemed like the generators did not take much maintenance to keep them going and I did work with one truck and mounted generator for something like six years and don't remember anything needing work on the generator.
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Richard
Why no RV year, make and floorplan on MY signature as we suggest for others?
I currently DO NOT have one! 
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