Charging the battery with generator issue
I'm not new to using my little Honda 2000i to charge my battery while boondocking, but on a recent outing at a music festival I ran my generator for nearly 2 hours and my battery didn't charge. Then ...
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road-runner wrote:
If there's no "surge protector" type of device in the RV blocking the AC to the converter, then I'd suspect something like a bad minus connection from the converter output, causing the AC bond to carry the converter's DC output, or alternatively an open neutral at the converter, causing the ground wire to carry the neutral side of the AC power.
Agree. I've owned two different EU2000i gensets and either would power any of the trailers I owned without having to first bond the genset's floating neutral to ground. It even worked with the first Surge Guard I owned, an early model 334730 that unlike current versions had no open ground detection capability. I replaced that SG with a Progressive EMS-HW30C which does have open ground detection and as a result would not pass power from the genset to the trailer unless I did G-N bond the genset output OR removed the EMS entirely. However, none of this has anything to do with the converter itself so anyone not running surge protection / EMS should be able to power their trailer from any suitable genset whether it's output is bonded or not.
