Pro Power - Anybody Run In Parallel w/a Generator

[HammaMan]

Not connecting the grounds up as well are you? Don't connect a ground wire to the honda.

What's the load you're running? Connect up a space heater on high (1.5kW) before turning on the honda to see what happens.

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[dafish]

Not connecting the grounds up as well are you? Don't connect a ground wire to the honda.

What's the load you're running? Connect up a space heater on high (1.5kW) before turning on the honda to see what happens.

howdy. I was using a rented eu2000 connected to o a heat gun pulling 750 watts. I tried it with and without grounds being passed.

Mind you for direct attach loads I would have preferred a ground. still, my use case only demanded parallel for home backfeed, so had the PB not faulted so readily I'd have been fine as I really don't care (don't want) ground for direct attach to a grounded home.

Bottom line: if the Ford is gonna be finicky in anyway than it’s not production viable for me. As I move into buying an RV I now have adequate power, and this will be fine for an emergency for the “average” home.

thanks again for all the advice!

 

[dafish]

It is possible there was something amiss in my test? Yes. I'm going to retrace all the connects and be sure. 120V is pretty tolerant of getting the leg/neutral inverted at the load, so MAYBE I had one inverted relative to the other at the suicide cord. I'll check all the wiring again. Not a very large chance, but it's the only thing I haven't rechecked.

Checked. Nope, nothing inverted or reversed vis a vis 120V and possible reversed neutral. Rats. Time to move on to the next project.

 

[filmguy]

What an interesting discussion this has been. Thank you!

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