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I had posted several months ago about my MEP016D wiring. I have a setup now that maybe others would want to use, so this question might concern any generator, not just MEP016D. So...my MEP is located in my detached garage. Garage has separate electric service from house. I have established...

ETN550 - you lost me...again. I did end up wiring to my garage load center with main shut off and only one breaker on (serving duplex outlets) - L1 to hot bus, and L2 to the neutral bus. I did not ground the frame; I assumed that the frame ground lug will be grounded by its own ground rod when...

Not a problem...that's my man cave, and no one ventures out there but me. I will be within 10 feet of and in line of sight of the load center anyhow (it's a separate pole building across the road next to the chicken coop).

So, with that said, does it sound to you like it's good to go as a 120 volt house back-up? My garage has a separate service entrance, so I was thinking of tying in L1 to one of the hot bus bars and L2 into the neutral bus bar (with main shut off and only one breaker on that has a few 120 volt...

Alright...so I got a light fixture and wired on some #12 THHN to both leads. The 60 W bulb only lights between L1-L2. I checked all other combinations between terminals and ground. I then twisted the ends of the wire to my multimeter leads, and continued to check. 0 v between L1-Grd, 0 volts...

Ike: Yes, I want to connect to my house in 120 volt only mode. Solid neutral transfer switch (neutral unswitched). (Not sure of NEC article, I deal almost exclusively with Articles 240, 250, 310 and 690) Alright...I don't know why my meter reads differently from my electrician friend's (I...

Ike and ETN550: I've spent some time looking into this matter some more, and it appears to me that the "floating neutral" of the MEP-016D in 120v mode is for stand-alone only, and can't be used for house wiring. Since I did not get continuity between ground and L1 or ground and L2, but am...

Alright, so I played around with this for a few minutes this morning. I grounded the unit at the frame ground lug, flipped the main breaker on, and checked continuity at all terminals - to each other, and to ground. Only L1 - L2 showed continuity (to each other). None of the other terminals...

Thanks, guys. I'm going to mess with it some more through the week. I'm sure I will have more questions. Mike

I am not completely following, but sounds like I need to so some more homework. Thank you for the lesson. I am a Civil Engineer, and it's been a few years since my last EE class (almost 20, to be exact). Goes to show that two college degrees are not a substitute for experience. Hopefully...

Thanks, Isaac. I was going to run to the hardware store yet tonight to get some terminals so I could wire in the mod for 120/240 on the 240 1-phase switch setting (jumper between L0 and TB-6. If you do get around to messing with yours, please let me know what you find. I suppose that it could...

We also tried it in 120 3-phase. We got 120 volts between L1-L2, L1-L3, L2-L3, and then around 60 volts from L1-L0, L2-L0, and L3-L0. I am assuming from your reply that I should have been getting 120 volts from one of the terminals to ground in 120 1-phase mode?

Hi, All! I have been gathering tons of info from this site for the past month or so, done tons of searches, and I'm still coming up empty-handed on answers to my particular question. I recently got an MEP-016D with 1 hour on the engine. I have been planning to run this generator as an...