Hooked up my Champion 3100 watt to the 5th wheel for the first time today. Worked great, tried air and even in economy mode ran the air just fine. With generator 20 feet away only a faint sound of it inside camper and with air on no noise from it at all. The only question is it showed reverse polarity on my surge guard, is this normal? Think I will like it very much if this polarity thing is not a problem.

normal, although you don't need a SG with a generator.

The genset does not have a connection between the neutral and ground. This is common. You need to make a dummy plug that ties the neutral and ground together. This will lie to the Surge Guard.

enblethen wrote:The genset does not have a connection between the neutral and ground. This is common. You need to make a dummy plug that ties the neutral and ground together. This will lie to the Surge Guard.I had to do this with my 2KW Generator using an ADAPTER with the SHORE POWER CORD plugged into the 120VAC connector on the generator... My problem was one of my GFCI receptacle was tripping on me... Google ImagesGoogle ImageDon't know if this will solve your problem or not but this does tie the GROUND and NEUTRAL connections together coming from the generator...Roy Ken

Don't understand why someone uses a surge protector with a 3000w or less generator.Am I missing something?

bikendan wrote:Don't understand why someone uses a surge protector with a 3000w or less generator.Am I missing something?Perhaps it's hard-wired in. Or it's one of those belt- and -suspenders things, like holding the gas nozzle instead of trusting it to shut itself off.

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RoyB
Explorer II
Apr 29, 2017
enblethen wrote:
The genset does not have a connection between the neutral and ground. This is common. You need to make a dummy plug that ties the neutral and ground together. This will lie to the Surge Guard.

I had to do this with my 2KW Generator using an ADAPTER with the SHORE POWER CORD plugged into the 120VAC connector on the generator... My problem was one of my GFCI receptacle was tripping on me...

Google Images

Google Image

Don't know if this will solve your problem or not but this does tie the GROUND and NEUTRAL connections together coming from the generator...

Roy Ken
enblethen
Nomad
Apr 29, 2017
The genset does not have a connection between the neutral and ground. This is common. You need to make a dummy plug that ties the neutral and ground together. This will lie to the Surge Guard.
2oldman
Explorer II
Apr 29, 2017
normal, although you don't need a SG with a generator.

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