On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:00:58 -0400, Alan NV8A wrote:
>OTOH, I've read suggestions by licensed electricians and electrical
>inspectors suggesting that all these Hondas should be red-tagged
because
>they are not and cannot be properly grounded in accordance with the
NEC.
Those electricians may be trying to apply residential standards to
outdoor portable systems, and they may not apply. Someone more familar
with NEC can probably enlighten us further.
Note that the BOND to EARTH is solely for lightning protection, and for
other high voltage faults that come in on the power line. This is far
less of an issue for wiring that mostly lays on the ground.
Bonding of the green wire at each outlet is to the neutral back at the
panelboard or other distro. This is to prevent electric shock, and for
fire safety -- the purpose of the green wire is to blow a fuse if the
chassis something plugged into an outlet gets "hot" due to a fault.
There is nothing inherent in a generator that would preclude you from
connecting it to a suitable panelboard or distro that bonds neutral to
green and earth, which then takes care of both kinds of bonding.
Further, let's say you do a changeover switch at your residence to take
power from that generator. If you tie the generator in to the same point
where the incoming power comes in (via the transfer switch), you would
still meet code. Unless there's something I'm missing.
W4EF's advice, posted via a link by someone else in this thread, is
solid. Mike knows what he is talking about. One thing I would add to
his advice, which is probably a couple of years old, is that the newer
Fair-Rite #31 mix would do a much better job of filtering the lower HF
bands. And with either #43 or #31, you MUST wind a bunch of turns as he
as shown in his photo. For more detail on this, see the app notes on
ferrites on my website.
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/publish
Another point. Mike's common mode choke gets only the common mode trash
-- that is, the AC line radiating as a long wire antenna. If the RF is
getting onto the line itself (that is, between hot and neutral), you
would also need a good line filter. AND -- it must be the right kind of
line filter, it must be right next to the noise source, and it must be
bonded (NOT earthed) to the frame of the noise source. By "the right
kind of filter," I mean that it needs to be configured to block noise
from the generator to the load, rather than the other way around, and it
must be designed to be effective over the frequency range that is
bothering you. In other words, there are line filters, and there are
line filters.
73,
Jim Brown K9YC
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