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KTManiac · 11-28-2009, 09:06 AM

Don,

Just go to Home Depot(or hardware store) and get a male repair plug for an extension cord. Then use a short piece of insulated wire to link the neutral and ground prongs within the plug itself. I got an orange one that is rectangular and marked it with a sharpie pen as "neutral-ground bond plug". Plug it into the 20 amp receptacle of the generator, start the genny, plug your trailer cord into the genny's other plug-in. Et voilà!, open ground problem solved.

The qualified electricians here should be able to give us the pros and cons of this solution. It works, and is easily reversible. If you stand around bare footed, in a mud puddle, holding on to the generator frame, in the rain, I suppose you could eventually get electrocuted, given the right circumstances.

It works for me.

11-28-2009, 09:06 AM	#3
KTManiac Montana Master Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Posts: 560 M.O.C. #8818	Don, Just go to Home Depot(or hardware store) and get a male repair plug for an extension cord. Then use a short piece of insulated wire to link the neutral and ground prongs within the plug itself. I got an orange one that is rectangular and marked it with a sharpie pen as "neutral-ground bond plug". Plug it into the 20 amp receptacle of the generator, start the genny, plug your trailer cord into the genny's other plug-in. Et voilà!, open ground problem solved. The qualified electricians here should be able to give us the pros and cons of this solution. It works, and is easily reversible. If you stand around bare footed, in a mud puddle, holding on to the generator frame, in the rain, I suppose you could eventually get electrocuted, given the right circumstances. It works for me.