| Generator ground to frame and body [message #209172] |
Wed, 29 May 2013 16:22  |
mickey szilagyi
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Registered: January 2013
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We're still working on getting a Generac PrimePact 50 into our 26 foot coach. Everything is going well and we're getting close to testing it - before we actually put it into the compartment. By the way it fits but barely and same with the stainless golf cart battery tray, barely.
We noticed on the 12V schematic there are two grounds that connect to the same lug on the generator. One goes to the frame and one goes to the body. We're assuming, and hopefully correctly, that the body ground is basically to some aluminum part of the coach body and the frame ground is to the steel frame underneath the coach. We will use the same frame ground that the Onan was attached to. There was a bolt through the aluminum at the front right of the battery compartment that had large cables running to it when we first started this project and were removing stuff. We took pictures so we have a record of what went where. But we had to remove that battery compartment bolt as the stainless battery tray wouldn't go in with that bolt still in place. We were going to eliminate it as it seemed to be a ground replication as the Generac will be grounded to the frame along with the batteries. But, are we making a mistake? And we notice a lot of grounds in the 12V schematic at various places to either the frame or the body. Is that just for convenience or a matter of necessity? Isn't the body well connected to the frame so that grounding to one is as good as grounding to the other?
It seems like we don't run out of questions. You guys have helped us tremendously so far. I don't know how we could be doing the stuff we're doing without this forum.
Thanks all!
Mickey/Chris
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing/Gregory MI
Mickey
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing, MI
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