| Ground-Fault if Honda is grounded or not
Hi,
This past weekend, I hooked up our Honda eu2000i to recharge a bit. It set off our Surge Guard Digital Line Monitor with a ground fault warning. Steps taken with no better results:
1) Plugged the Digital Line Monitor into each of the 120v sockets directly on the Honda
2) Ran a copper wire from the ground connection point on the Honda to a steel tent peg in the ground.
3) Plugged the Digital Line Monitor into each of the 120v sockets directly on edgeman's Honda eu2000i
Next I plugged the Digital Line Monitor into a very old farm field outlet and it too showed the ground fault (OK, it's probably a bad monitor, right).
At this point, I just set the Digital Line Monitor aside and charged my batteries for a while (No damage apparent).
On returning home, I plugged the Digital Line Monitor into our trailer while hooked up to shore power. No ground fault - the monitor is working.
I've read 2air's thread started in 2006 about GFI troubles and see this is a different kind of situation. But I've been unable to find any threads dealing with generator ground faults.
Can anyone add insight to this situation?
Walt
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