Craig Clayton
Platinum Member
Gentlemen
This is followup to a posting that I made before on a polesaw that was powered by a generator. I had some members ask some very important questions that I felt needed answering. The cart that the generator is on is a vehicle and the grounding of the generator is to be bonded to the vehicle. This applies only to portable cord connected tools. I researched every technical paper that could be found. The issue starts when you talk about the 5KW range of generators which moves on to the other uses of them, which you will notice that I am not going to mention. The issue to correct my generator was that it needed to be bolted to the vehicle and all non current carrying metal parts to be bonded to the vehicle. You will notice a green wire in one of the pictures. I made a cover to carry my cords in so that they could be kept with the generator. I took apart the setup in stages to show what could be done with it. The generator can be unbolted and loaded in a truck for transport very easily. I found American rules that state that the size of the generator is not important provided that it is vehicle mounted and has cord connected tools.On Google I typed in ( Vehicle mounted generators ) and came up with 10 PDF files. The slippery slope is when the generator is not mounted on a vehicle with cord connected tools , then a large number of other rules come into play. I read all 30 of the other files that I could find. I also found that manufactures throw in their manuals to ground the generator just to cover themselves. That brings in other problems as to people running around driving in ground rods at random. I am a electrician and have studied this beyond what I have typed so far. If there are any questions I can post up the files where I found the information.
So bolt your generators down and bond to the vehicle.
Craig Clayton
This is followup to a posting that I made before on a polesaw that was powered by a generator. I had some members ask some very important questions that I felt needed answering. The cart that the generator is on is a vehicle and the grounding of the generator is to be bonded to the vehicle. This applies only to portable cord connected tools. I researched every technical paper that could be found. The issue starts when you talk about the 5KW range of generators which moves on to the other uses of them, which you will notice that I am not going to mention. The issue to correct my generator was that it needed to be bolted to the vehicle and all non current carrying metal parts to be bonded to the vehicle. You will notice a green wire in one of the pictures. I made a cover to carry my cords in so that they could be kept with the generator. I took apart the setup in stages to show what could be done with it. The generator can be unbolted and loaded in a truck for transport very easily. I found American rules that state that the size of the generator is not important provided that it is vehicle mounted and has cord connected tools.On Google I typed in ( Vehicle mounted generators ) and came up with 10 PDF files. The slippery slope is when the generator is not mounted on a vehicle with cord connected tools , then a large number of other rules come into play. I read all 30 of the other files that I could find. I also found that manufactures throw in their manuals to ground the generator just to cover themselves. That brings in other problems as to people running around driving in ground rods at random. I am a electrician and have studied this beyond what I have typed so far. If there are any questions I can post up the files where I found the information.
So bolt your generators down and bond to the vehicle.
Craig Clayton
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