Joel_T wrote:
Don't know which Honda 2000 they were referring to but they're saying it's "OK" as long as it's ground/neutral bonded.
Progressive's concern isn't over bonding the floating neutral output of such a genset (despite the EMS owner's manual indicating otherwise) but rather that some gensets,
the Yamaha EF2000iS in particular,
not the Honda EU2000i, can produce a modified sine waveform under some circumstances, ergo the reason they'll void warranty on any of their EMS units used with a Yamaha EF2000iS.
After viewing
Mike Sokol's video in which he demonstrated how bonding the output of a Honda EU3000iS would allow a Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C to accept the signal and pass it through to the EMS output I decided to go ahead and bond my EU2000i's output and feed it to my own EMS-HW30C. It works fine so that leaves me with the question as to whether I can similarly bond the output of my 1000 watt PSW inverter. If I read it correctly the inverter owner's manual says to never bond it's output and if this were a 60/60 inverter design that would make sense. However, this particular unit I have produces 120 vac only between hot and neutral so I suspect I can bond that neutral to ground so the EMS that I'd like to plug into it would accept the signal just as it now accepts the signal from my bonded EU2000i. I'm now just waiting to hear more from
Mike on the subject before proceeding.
