If the genset powers a homes panel that's a different situation, because it gets a Neutral to ground bond there. NOTE inside the RV panel, unlike a homes panel, the Ground Buss and Neutral Buss are NOT bonded but separate and electrically isolated and insulated, which is why I prefer the energy source, be it the parks utility power pedestal or normal utility (which have Neutral to Ground Bond at transformer and main panel) or genset have a bonded to ground Neutral. There's more to this story but nuff said for now. Its (safety equipment ground) like a bridge (wire) to nowhere. If its NOT bonded a ground fault to the Safety Equipment Grounding Conductor (which is bonded to outer metal cases of some tools and appliances) does NOT pass fault current and will NOT trip the breaker. Its easy to jump wire the Neutral and Ground together by using a male plug or other simple methods, I prefer a Bonded to Ground Neutral configuration myself. If your Genset has its Neutral FLOATED detection and surge devices don't know which end is up lol
REVERSE POLARITY OUTLET PORTABLE
Seems like we discussed this in detail somewhere some time back, and there was a link describing which makes and models of portable gensets had FLOATING NEUTRALS and which had BONDED TO GROUND NEUTRALS. Any suggestions/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
REVERSE POLARITY OUTLET GENERATOR
It would be harder to get into the guts of the generator to see if the Red and Brown wires are reversed at that point. It would be fairly simple to switch the wires at outlet. Has anyone else encountered this with their generator? Same result plugging it directly into the generator outlet. I tested the outlets inside the trailer with one of the small circuit testers and both yellow lights and the red light are on indicating reverse polarity and open ground.
The reverse polarity has me stumped as I looked at the wiring diagram for the generator and the Red wire is connected to the vertical/horizontal blade side of the outlet and the Brown wire is connected to the vertical blade side as shown in the wiring diagram. The faulty ground I can understand because the grounding system for the generator is not much. It passed the power through, but the screen is reading reverse polarity and faulty ground. Today for the first time ever, I plugged the Surge Guard 34730 into the generator. Since you've replaced outlets before, you will find all this easy.I have used my Yamaha 2400IS a number of times when dry camping and to charge the batteries. When you find an outlet with reverse polarity, you can fix it merely by interchanging the black and white wires. That way you can verify that your new GFCI is working too. Spend the extra $3 and buy the one with the push-button GFCI tester on it.
REVERSE POLARITY OUTLET CODE
Just plug it into an outlet, and the three lights light up in code to tell you if it's wired correctly, or what's wrong. To test polarity, buy a $7 gizmo at any home improvement center to test your outlets. Just replace the first outlet on each circuit, and it will protect the remaining outlets. You don't need to replace all outlets to get GFCI protection. Follow the wiring diagram on the package. It wires up pretty much the same way as a regular outlet. It's probably not required to retrofit, but it is a great idea. Thanks! I was hoping that it would be easy - an electrician said that the reverse polarity was a 10 minute job but would be $125 (minimum charge)! I appreciate the help!
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