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Grounding/Earthing a Portable Generator & Cable Required for Permanent Installation
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<blockquote data-quote="1am7h30n3" data-source="post: 1135890" data-attributes="member: 13860"><p>You wouldn't be able to use the housewire for surface mounting, it's designed to be run inside a conduit. The surfix cable would be suitable to surface mount.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't run a separate earth spike, would use the house earth. Otherwise you have 2 earth points, one at your municipal box (or wherever it's earthed) and you'd be creating a new one far away from the first with your new earth spike. Your transfer switch wouldn't switch the earth only live/neutral, so you'd wind up with 2 connected earth points separated by a lot of distance.</p><p></p><p>I'm not an expert, nor an electrician. Just my thoughts on this subject. It may be completely wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1am7h30n3, post: 1135890, member: 13860"] You wouldn't be able to use the housewire for surface mounting, it's designed to be run inside a conduit. The surfix cable would be suitable to surface mount. I wouldn't run a separate earth spike, would use the house earth. Otherwise you have 2 earth points, one at your municipal box (or wherever it's earthed) and you'd be creating a new one far away from the first with your new earth spike. Your transfer switch wouldn't switch the earth only live/neutral, so you'd wind up with 2 connected earth points separated by a lot of distance. I'm not an expert, nor an electrician. Just my thoughts on this subject. It may be completely wrong. [/QUOTE]
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