eb6500 Honda. to travel trailer
I have a nephew that wants to use my eb6500 Honda generator in back of his truck. For trailer air conditioner My question is about grounding. Should generator be on a rubber mate in back of the truc...
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Itasca55 wrote:
So I get this straight .. He's got trailer that's a 30 amp .. I bought the Honda 30 amp to RV adapter to use.. and on a travel trailer it should be unbonded .
You're making this more complicated than it needs to be. Honda's EU series of inverter gensets are intended for general portable / recreational use and as such have floating neutral outputs which will power an RV just fine by simply plugging the trailer into the genset. However, those also running an EMS to protect their trailer's electrical system discover that the EMS interprets this floating neutral as an open ground and will refuse to pass power to the coach. The solution is to either remove the EMS and not use it at all OR install a bonding plug on the output of the genset. OTOH your Honda EB6500 is an open frame, synchronous contractor genset so in order to meet OSHA requirements the gensets in this EB series have a bonded output. Therefore, since an EU series that has been bonded will power an RV just fine so too should your EB series that has already been bonded by Honda. Nonetheless, in that service bulletin I linked to Honda has provided instructions to easily remove that bond for those who find situations where there's a GFCI confliction.
