Portable Generator Grounding

Since they are paralleled, one should work.

What are you using for parallel cables?

Or just use the PI bypass.

smkettner wrote:
Or just use the PI bypass.

No, better to make the plug. That way you can't forget to turn the PI bypass off later, and the PI system is still protecting your rig from a generator malfunction. Just need to bond (that is the term) one of them while they are connected.

For additional safety you can make the bond plug with a 100,000 ohm 1/2 watt resistor.

I'll be using ready made cables.

Thanks for the responses.

marspec wrote:
.. a hard wired Progressive. I know I need to provide a ground by connecting a plug to the generators with the neutral and ground connected.

Perhaps I need schoolin' here. Why wouldn't the regular Honda cables provide your grounding? Are you using Honda cables..? kinda hard to tell from your response.

Ground is the Wrong Term

Nothing is grounded,
The adapter plug provides a "Bond" between the floating neutral and the ground lug of the duplex plug

This bond/continuity is what the EMS wants to sense, it is what is expected on utility power from the power company

The Honda cables do not provide this bonding function
They connect/parallel the existing wires
They do not cross connect Aka bond the neutral and ground lugs

Does your Progressive EMS have a remote display with a switch? If so, all you need to do is just turn the switch off when you run the generator.

The switch turns all the other sensors off except for surge protection.

VAWinger wrote:
Does your Progressive EMS have a remote display with a switch? If so, all you need to do is just turn the switch off when you run the generator.

The switch turns all the other sensors off except for surge protection.

No, better to make the plug. That way you can't forget to turn the PI bypass off later, and the PI system is still protecting your rig from a generator malfunction. Just need to bond (that is the term) one of them while they are connected.