I dont know what actually is happening when a leg is out at a grain elevator that drops to the 60-80, something at the transformer i assume. This is the site i went to swap a ptp500 to a 650 last week and broke their manlift, this site and i have.... history, will probably be where i die, i made it my bitch once and had to climb up in an ice storm with two inches of ice on everything, 6 inch horizontal icicles, still got that up and running wearing khakis and a jacket. Ever since i took its manhood, that place has treated me like its a psycho ex wife.
Ill rewire the cutover switch in the morning when the power company gets it fixed up. I do have to have a solution for knucklehead techs though, i think i could have achieved the same thing with a two prong adapter. Just dont want to deal with osha and paperwork if i play croakamope with a tech picking up a generator On Aug 2, 2017 8:14 PM, "George Skorup" <[email protected]> wrote: > I see 60-80VAC at grain sites all the time when a phase is out. Pain in > the ass. The GFI recept on the gen could just be going bad. Could also be > something as simple as noise/surge suppression in your UPS causing it. I > wouldn't worry about it. > > On 8/2/2017 7:12 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > > Millivolts not amps > > On Aug 2, 2017 7:08 PM, "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Milliamps. But its a brownout/power outage >> >> On Aug 2, 2017 6:57 PM, "Jaime Solorza" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Did it read zero? If not , have that checked...we spent all morning with >> engineers, electricians and us chasing a weird diesel generator to UPS >> issue...Fluke meters galore... >> >> Jaime Solorza >> >> On Aug 2, 2017 5:51 PM, "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> At a grain elevator right now, brownout type issue, 60v some places none >>> at others. Not our chair, not our problem, except our portable generator >>> gfi trips every time the cutover switch engages. >>> We ended up just bypassing the cutover and only wiring phase and neutral >>> to the generator outlet, leaving ground disconnected. I suppose we could >>> have left everything intact and disconnected ground from the panel, i dont >>> know >>> >>> But what we have now is phase and neutral on generator feeding the >>> outlet up top, the ground is still connected to the service ground up top. >>> We dont have access to a panel its connected at >>> >>> I did measure between the ground at the panel and a known good earth >>> ground. No voltage, i assume that means no hot ground. >>> >>> The concern here is if im missing something and the gfi is kicking >>> because of something i dont have capacity to verify, is running this >>> generator this way a risk of electrocuting somebody who touches the frame? >>> >>> Its ground is not connected in the circuit, same as if id just connected >>> a 2 prong adapter >>> >>> >> >
