3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

MrWizard wrote:
maybe it would help, if we just 'try' to refer to the 'common wire / white wire' and try to refrain from the 'neutral' term

the white common wire IS ALWAYS load carrying and only in a home RESIDENTIAL wiring is zero volts neutral to ground NOT to the hot,[/quote


MrWizzard:

You have been such a big help to me. I started here at GROUND zero. I do like trying to learn something new at the age of 73. Some questions I have ask were kinda 101. I would never change one day in the life of this thread. Now, I found it interesting to learn some new terms, new to me. Your points about this floating neutral make some since. I never thought about Mother Earth being a faithful servant in being part of the circuit. Now you can have a good one on me. I thought the circuit just simply met a end in the ground. Not being part of the circuit. I always knew you could break a two wire circuit by either the black(hot) or the white(ground) ahhhh never entered my mind that this white was what it is......not a very good sentence. Now, Porfessor95 I am beginning to understand why you spent some much time in the classroom on the subject of, yes, GROUNDING. I will admit my lack of understanding with grounding. But I have made some progress with the help of all you vary kind men. I've got the genny in my RV circuit with (what is it) the floating something. Still a concern. I don't want to experience a SHORT circuit because I don't know what to do, YES, with this third wire (copper) Ground, Not grounded to earth and not in use from my genset compartment to the RV receptacle where I plug the shore cord to power the RV from the genset. I don't think I have moved past dead center. Say, men, old & slow Is still in the fog. This third wire hanging loose. Hope all my appliances are ok without our mother earth's help. So a ground (White wire, (boy that's a good one)is both a conductor and ground, something like that.
I give up, it's hopeless.

Floyd