House GFI trips when I run MH generator
I know that GFIs can sometimes be a pain but they are a necessary pain. Here is the issue. Everything works great for days on end when I'm plugged into the garage GFI for pre/post trip like running th...
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sch911 wrote:enblethen wrote:
You should be un-plugging the garage power or any shore power before starting genset.
I agree it sounds like a bad transfer switch holding both sides on, but you shouldn't need to unplug from shore power to run the generator. After all that's what the transfer switch is for in the first place!
You do need to unplug or at least turn off the shore power before the generator picks up the load. It is an automatic transfer switch made to go to shore power first then genny if NO shore power available.
At least that is the way it is on my Southwind
