3-Wire Circuit Analyzer results ?

[thekennys]

Well my 3-Wire Circuit Analyzer with the three lights tells me that my hot and neutral lines are reversed. my honda gen also shows that at gen panel. Is that right? I have a probe that lights hp when touched to hot lines and outlets indicate hot on line side and not hot on neutral side.

mikey

[H. John Kohl]

This guideline by Jim Fischer may help you.

[BB_TX]

You talking about something like this?
Mine shows normal (two yellow lights) when I plug it in.

[thekennys]

yes exactly but mine has a red and yellow next to each other.

mikey

[Tom S.]

Unplug the rig from any source of power and pull the outlet apart to check the wiring. If it looks OK, you'll have to pull the cover off your circuit breaker panel to check the wires in there. If they both places look OK, it maybe the power source. If you are at a park, have the manager have someone check it out. Does the Honda show this when you aren't hooked up to external power? If so, the problems has to be inside the trailer or the power cord going to the trailer.

[thekennys]

Ok I confess.
after reading the suggested info and thinking hard i....put on my glasses and noticed that only the center light was light and I was misreading the lights. the glow from the middle yelloy light made me see the red one seem to be lite....so what I have is no ground as i'm using a 30A conector and the converter also isn't grounded to my unit.
ther is no major problrm just the seemingly clasic question of grounding the power sourse
thanks everyone i feel beter
mikey

[twindman]

I just went thru a similar problem. I bought a new generator and it worked fine at home testing a light, etc. Hooked it to the Monty and my Surge Guard said Ground Open - no dice. After much research, I found that my Boliy Generator (and either Yamaha or Honda models) have what is know as floating ground.
The simple solution is to connect the neutral to the ground so the surge guard saw a 'ground'. But my gen. still read 168 volts instead of 120. Turns out Boliy actually has the neutral at 60 volts and the hot at 60 (I assume 180 degrees out of phase to get 120 total). Since normally the only thing that matters is the total voltage it works most of the time whichever way they wire the 2 sides. So they actually had 2 red wires inside instead of a white and black. So it is easy to see them wiring it backwards. And in my case it somehow effected the total voltage. Just reversing the wires fixed the problem.
Sorry to drag on about this...
Good luck