On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:04:57 -0000, Roger Mills wrote:

That's what I've done with my Honda generator. I was pretty sure the
earth was floating but initally connected N to E using a 60w light bulb
rather than a hard link on the basis that if it *wasn't* floating, the
bulb would glow and I would be able to measure a finite voltage across
it. Result: no glow and no voltage, so I replaced the bulb with a hard
link.

One also assumes that you have stuck a rudy great label on the set or made
the link *very* visible so that some one coming along expecting the two
phases to be flaoting (as is normal for a portable generator) is aware of
the link. Trouble is they might not be aware of the safety implications
such a link has...

Best to leave the Gen set unmodified and put the link in the connector you
use to connect to the "normal" wiring scheme. With a warning notice and
instruction not to operate the set with that connector unless the earth
spike is also connected to the sets frame.

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Cheers
Dave.