[A/S] Re: honda grounding

["Matt Worner" <wornmatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Matt, are you saying that my Honda 2000 has a way to be grounded to 
> earth ?  Not that I can see, nor is there anything that I saw in the 
> instructions about it.

There should be a binding post of some sort on the outside of the 
unit.  I don't have my Honda (EU1000) here so I'm not sure where to 
look for it.  

> And I deleted the post about who it was that opened up someone's 
> generator and made a jump wire, which seemed like a bad idea at the 
> time, Honda might know what they are doing ?  

Should do, shouldn't they.

> who was the
> person who came up with the jumper wire in the first place and what are 
> his creds ?

I don't know, but absolutely fearless as I am, that scared even me.

> 
> In the interest of lessesning the panic level,  I have never heard of 
> anyone having a problem with these generators that would require doing 
> this.

I've never checked the output plug on my gensets with a receptacle 
tester either.  I would ground the trailer to the genset at least, 
and to a ground stake if I were going to be in one place for a 
while.  The main thing is not to bond if you aren't going to do it 
properly.  Probably the best option is an in line GFCI.  They work 
on 2 or 3 wire circuits.  I really should write something of a 
tutorial up and post it...

> 
> Has anyone asked Honda about this ?

I can tell you the answer without asking the question.  "You mess 
with the machine, you on your own baby.  We don't wanna hear about 
your fried eyeballs."