surge protector [RE-wrenches]

[Jeffrey Wolfe, Global Resources]

I had thought that the ground and neutral WERE bonded together, which is 
why you cannot plug an SW into a GFI outlet to feed power BACK into the 
utility. (I've tried to do this, both at home and on the road with our 
little portable power trailer.) The GFI instantly pops. Trace said it was 
because the GFI sees the inverter as a ground fault.....???

Jeff

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From: 	R. Sparks Scott[SMTP:sharkey at mrsharkey.com]
Reply To: 	RE-wrenches at topica.com
Sent: 	Sunday, November 12, 2000 8:56 PM
To: 	RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: 	Re: surge protector [RE-wrenches]

>His question is: could the Trace itself

	David;

	Remember, the SW series inverters have no internal bond connection between
neutral and ground. This effectively makes the output power "balanced",
that is 56 volts from hot to ground, and 56 volts from neutral to ground.
The APC might be detecting this and illuminating the fault light.
	Depending on any connections to grid supplied service panels which may
have a neutral/ground bond connection (this could open up the whole
ground/neutral/bond/code can of worms), you might make sure that the bond
is made somewhere in the system and see if the fault light extinguishes.

	-S

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