"Vaughn" wrote in message
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Rich256 wrote:

Maurice Riggins adds:

Well... it's like I said... if you're reading 60V on the neutral line
with respect to ground, would YOU connect neutral to ground? Remember
that the neutral side of the EU output is unfused. Although the EU
manual shows the wiring diagram, it doesn't show you what's in the
inverter. That Vaughn is able to get away with shorting the 60V neutral
to ground, and apparently then getting 120V instead of 60V on the hot
side WRT ground, indicates the output is probably already transformer
coupled in the inverter. I wouldn't have considered that a safe
assumption to make.

I made no assumptions. I simply took the time to read the manual.
As both
I and another poster pointed out, you are reading a leakage voltage
because the
ground is not referenced to the hot or neutral. You need to add a load to
get a
correct reading.

Vaughn


Correct. Since the ground is attached to the frame that means all the metal
structure around the inverter is tied to that wire.


If a high value resistor were tied between the ground and neutral the
reading to the ground would most likely disappear. Just something to bleed
off the induced voltage. As someone else said they are not tied together in
the generator to avoid a double ground when tied into another system.

It's too cold or I would fire up my generator and see what it reads. This
does bring up an interesting subject in that when an RV is plugged into the
generator the ground is still floating. RVs do not tie their grounds and
return either. Well, not usually. If they do they often can't plug into
many campground systems because the CGs use ground fault detectors. If the
ground and return are tied together some current will flow in both wires
tripping the detector.