Generator/ Reverse Polarity Question

TheHound wrote:

wnjj wrote:

TheHound wrote:

wnjj wrote:
Looks great. Hopefully there's enough slack to do that.

Your sir are a ***bleeping*** genius lol!
SUCCESS!

This has been quite the learning process and I thank everyone that has piped in so far :) But one more question, sorry.

I noticed now I am getting voltage readings on all receptacles ONLY between hot and neutral. I thought I should also see it between hot and ground. :? Which is correct? Cheers! -Frank

Excellent! Good work getting in there and getting your fingers dirty.

The ground on your generator is only connected between the ground pins of the receptacles, the ground lug and possibly any metal in the chassis. Until you plug your bonding plug it, there will be no potential between it and anything else. After bonding it you should see 120V between ground and hot on all receptacles.

Thanks wnjj, hopefully not...but I am pretty sure I checked voltage with the bonding plug inserted and still saw one reading on all 3 receptacles (hot & neutral). At work now but will double check to be sure when I get home. If that is indeed the case, do I need to do something with the striped yellow/green wire? Cheers!

If the striped wire is connected to the ground pins on both receptacles and you bond one spot, those ground pins should all be shorted to the neutrals. Then it’s not possible to have power between hot and neutral without power between hot and ground. So just make sure the green and yellow wire is connected between them. Use ohms with the generator off and bonding plug out to see if the ground pins are connected between the receptacles and the ground bolt on the right.
Since your EMS used to say hot/neutral swapped when bonded, I suspect it’ll be fine now if all you did was swap white & black. The only way it knows about a reversal is if the ground is connected on both the bonded and plugged in receptacles. Now if a striped wire was loose and now off, that’s another matter.