3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

toprudder wrote:

professor95 wrote:
This is the thingie I made for my ELM3000 several years ago. Both pigtails are parallel at the 30 amp TT outlet. This version has the caps physically tied together with a gear type hose clamp and glue, but that is not necessary.

I am glad to see that you did tie them together. IMHO, it is necessary to have them physically tied together, since there is a chance someone might try to plug them in while the generator is running. If they are physically tied together, they have to be plugged in together. If they are not tied together, when one is plugged in and the other is not, the one NOT plugged in is HOT and can short to the metal frame, or through the person trying to plug it in.

Bob,

I had a good he-ha with your post, on myself. I can be forgiven hopefully as I am (WGERORE11 used to say) no 'lectrian. Say, where is he, I miss him. Ok, here we go. One day I was making a attempt to wire my Champion with a 30a (cap) to the junction box used by the old ONAN I was replacing. I plugged the cap and the attached wire into the genset 30a receptacle (with wire attached) and layed that wire on top of the genset that had been placed in the factory genset compartment. I had been testing the direction and out flow of the air from the genset. Some question came to mind (bad) so I crancked up ol' genny. I pleaced my hand on top of the genny checking the air flow and that was a lucky day. I'm sure I only missed touching that live (hot) wire by a fraction of a inch. Guess it was not my time to go. Anyway, I fear a novice like myself doing all this wiring talked about. But I'm 74 so this has to be taken into account. So Bob, that hot wire story brought back the thought of a bad day in black rock. I would say, tie the two caps together, much safer.

Floyd