earth grounding a generator

Sheesh. For temporary service give me an 18" grounding rod and I will blow a 200 amp service right off the temporary service drop. All it takes is WATER and keeping the earth around the rod the least bit moist.

Requirements are a lot stricter (as they should be) be permanent structure service.

I had 9" of soil to work with at the hotel, below which is solid basalt. Drill and dynamite time for the septic. A scraped off the soil and bolted a pad with welded rod to the basalt. It was located in a garden beneath the coconut palms. A direct short fried an 8 gauge wire and a 1 gauge blew each of the 2-breakers. An RV does not need a 100-amp rated earthing circuit.

The earth ground would be for static electricity , it’s no fun pouring fuel in a gen with static built up on it. The conditions for it are a real dry cold weather.

Generator grounding is for a permanent install. No requirement for portable.

sneakygroundbuzzard wrote:
we have a 2017 heritage glen 282rk,any one know if i will need that neutral ground plug that old biscuit posted a pic of for this unit when running the gen set in parallel?

Not sure why Old-Biscuit brought up a G-N bonding plug as it has nothing to do with powering your trailer with a genset or even two paralleled gensets. It only becomes a problem for those protecting their rig with an EMS which will interpret the floating neutral output of an inverter genset as an open ground and refuse to pass power to the trailer. Using a bonding plug on the genset output solves this, however without an EMS in the circuit your trailer will power just fine from your Yamaha gensets which do have a floating neutral output. As for earth grounding your genset(s) when powering your RV, not necessary.

well thanks for the quick replys

no i dont want to have to pound a pole in the ground when i go camping
most of the places we will go will have shore power to plug into,but there are a few that we are planning on go to that dont have shore power,which is why we bought the gen set.

we have a 2017 heritage glen 282rk,any one know if i will need that neutral ground plug that old biscuit posted a pic of for this unit when running the gen set in parallel?

once again i appreciate your input(you folks sure know your stuff when it comes to rv's,glad i found and joined this site :) )

'earth ground' as stated means attaching to a driven ground rod, or buried metal water pipe (NOT NEEDED in for RV use)

the bonding plug above, is needed for some 'voltage protection' circuit devices that some RVs have, they will show an open ground and refuse to allow power to the RV, unless the bonding plug is used on the portable generator

There is no need to earth ground a small 120V generator, but if you want to do it "officially" plan on driving a pair of well separated 8' 5/8" ground rods, something you probably don't want to do at every campground...

Just need to 'make' a 'Neutral/Ground Plug' ----