Sine Wave Inverter Anomaly
After following this recent discussion about how to best utilize a sine wave inverter for RV use I decided to go ahead and buy the 1000 watt model mentioned in this discussion since it was on sale for...
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brulaz wrote:
But if I did something similar with mine, what would my Prog Ind EMS-LCHW30 have to say about that open ground?
According to the docs, if it finds an open ground (or open neutral) it "will not allow power to the RV"
I do have a Surge Guard installed inside our trailer so that's the first thing incoming 120 vac sees and it's dealing with this fine, which in turn tells me the inverter is getting it's ground from the SG once the main service cable is plugged into it. This is confusing though because I also have a Honda EU2000i with a floating neutral and the Surge Guard will NOT turn on unless I bond the genset's output so I'm about to go outside now and do a few more tests to see if I can make some sense of this. Since this inverter is brand new and obviously under warranty I'm loathe to open up the case to take a look at how those output receptacles are wired so although comments received so far suggest this may be "normal" it sure does seem odd to me. :h
