I've done a little with 3 -phase and ungrounded systems (35 years) and can't figure the fascination with grounding/neutral return paths that some people have. all you need is a return path.blw2 said:oh, now that's a riot!
I've done a fair bit of work in electrical power and control panels for work, even 3-phase stuff....so I get the concept of neutral return path....but I'll admit to not full wrapping my head around this idea though that generators don't need to be grounded.
I know my little portable "construction" generator has a grounding lug on it, and probably says something about grounding it....it's been too many years since I noticed.
I think it's the whole "ground is like a safety valve" thing that hangs me up.
Yep... 8)blw2 said:my money is on "they were just being funny".
.... does that make me an optimist?
Maybe potting soil will give a "better" ground ;DFyrediver said:Too funny! Reminds me of a story from when I worked on Radars. One of our techs filled a box with dry soil with a tiny "grounding" rod in it. Told our Supervisor that he'd figured out we had bad ground; then he pulled out the box. To us it was quite funny and we laughed for a long time.