howson I guess its possible I have reached out to Hyundai
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Spend a few $ (yes we are extremely helpful in helping you spend money) and pick up a https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 or https://www.amazon.com/Receptacle-Te...xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ== and plug it in to the generator. This will help determine if the generator is wired backwards.
Also you may try testing the connection hot to neutral, hot to ground, neutral to ground to see what's going on. Be careful and only do this if you are comfortable working around live electricity.Joseph
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Originally posted by BwrightS View PostI guess the generator could be the issue.
Reached out to Go Power (they make my Inverter). They say there is a bonded ground built into the Inverter so adding 1 to the generator would cause more issues.
Still waiting to hear back from HyundaiForum moderators are not GD employees--we are volunteers and owners presumably just like yourself. Unless specifically mentioned otherwise, we have nothing to gain should you choose to purchase a product or engage a service we discuss on this forum.
Neil Citro
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BwrightS According to that manual it operates as I described and you'll need to bond the generator. The inverter automatically bonds the neutral and ground when it comes on, but when it detects power coming in (either but shore or generator) then it removes it's bond.Forum moderators are not GD employees--we are volunteers and owners presumably just like yourself. Unless specifically mentioned otherwise, we have nothing to gain should you choose to purchase a product or engage a service we discuss on this forum.
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Forum moderators are not GD employees--we are volunteers and owners presumably just like yourself. Unless specifically mentioned otherwise, we have nothing to gain should you choose to purchase a product or engage a service we discuss on this forum.
Neil Citro
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Originally posted by BwrightS View PostI guess the generator could be the issue.
Reached out to Go Power (they make my Inverter). They say there is a bonded ground built into the Inverter so adding 1 to the generator would cause more issues.
Still waiting to hear back from Hyundai
RobCate & Rob
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A GFCI doesn’t care if the neutral is bonded on the power source. A GFCI doesn’t care if the power source is grounded or if there is even a ground wire coming from the power source. A GFCI isn’t affected by the power source at all unless the power source is mis-wired or defective such that current flows through the ground wire
A GFCI responds to two things and only two things: A difference in hot and neutral current passing through the GFCI, and a connection between the ground and neutral wires downstream of the GFCI. If either of these situations occur, the GFCI will trip immediately, every timeJohn & Kathy
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That was my original thinking about tripping gfci when using inverter generators. Only unbalanced current flow in hot and neutral can trip the gfci. That leads to concluding all inverter generators that are not n-g bonded are wrongly wired. I don't think that is true. There must be some other reason for unbalanced current that n-g bonding solves.
Does a gfci trip when self-testing when the power source does not have a n-g bond?Ted
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