I loved it. I identify as a Jack of all Trades. Plumbing, Heating, and Electrical. Your comment cracked me up. I had originally discovered this issue last year, but had I found your video then I would have saved myself time. Does anybody have kids? Guess what you're not just a doctor. You're a therapist, a problem solver, likely an electrician, and even a plumber. I'll let you figure that one out but it's pretty obvious. At least to this once-single Mr. Mom. Now, Ladies, I didn't forget you!! I've seen some ladies and men even take on the role of a mechanic. Yep, changing their own oil, working on brakes and rotors, or even swapping out a car battery. Ladies and Gents, you identified as a mechanic. (OKAY BACKYARD MECHANIC). JDS Outdoors keep up the great work!

Klein must have revised their tool. Same generator same Klein tool, it just says on the display open ground 125v. The floating neutral for RV’s needs a bonding plug or similar. This video helped identify that for me.

Stumbled upon your site looking for a solution to what I thought was a problem with my 3500 Predator. Same problem you identified. BINGO!... problem solve! WOW did I hit the jackpot. And... you made me chuckle a couple of times... REALLY enjoyed your presentation... you're a natural pro with communications. And I do communications for a living. Actually... I lie for a living... I'm a TV Meteorologist. But I digress. Thanks for the help and the smiles. I've subscribed and am now backtracking thru your library. Thanks much for all of your efforts and info... GREAT STUFF!

I almost didn't buy the predator 3500 because of your first video but this video definitely eased some worries! Thanks my man!

Thanks for trouble shooting that out, I purchased a new rv travel-trailer last summer and am looking to purchase a generator for off grid camping , I will definitely remember this if it comes up thanks for posting.

Great information. I learned something today. I thought the generator was going to be wired wrong from the factory.

You need a neutral ground bonding plug. You plug that into one of the outlets on the generator and it will work like it should.

Well there you go. I was one that originally claimed the fault was because of the open ground with the gen set. Then after thinking and replying with another commenter I talked about a job I had where the customer claimed a hot / ground reversed on one circuit in their RV. That actually turned out to be an open neutral. That's when I thought it might be a neutral fault. Its funny because the last sentence I said is how I hate those outlet testers because I can't trust them and their is no substitute to an actual multimeter. Hey, either way I'm glad to see you figured out the cause. For me that's the fun part of troubleshooting. I enjoy the hunt. Subbed to your channel btw.

Glad you got her figured out. Never know when a multimeter will save the day.

Damn. Great team work, and great you all found this out. I was about to go replace my “stolen” tool with a Klein. I wonder if other models do that as well… need to test and replace some GFCIs outside. Want to make sure I don’t fry nothing, including me in the process. Lol! Thanks again and here’s to ya on another great vid.

Glad you figured it out. I was wondering what the heck was going on. I always got 120ish with my fluke meter.

Thanks man, I was confused from some of the shorts and comments. Definitely would put this generator on the list for camping

Glad it was just the tool. I was looking at one of those Predator 3500s until I saw your original video. Appreciate the update!

Thanks for making this video. I saw your other video and will be buying a tester just to make sure I’m all good

You the man thanks for the vid straight to the point . I was having the same problem with tester different model. I thought it was my cord and generator . It wasn’t thanks bro . Thanks it’s was the tester I returned it got my money back . Got a different tester . Thanks bro

I learned today that if u have a built in surge protector in your rv, that it wont work with a generator because of the open ground. U have to make a plug that ties the neutral and the ground together and then the surge protector will work and allow power to the rv.

I had 30 ft coach and I had both ac running, turned the microwave, every light on and small items plugged in and only pulled 3200 watts to the best of my memory. That 3500 is adequate for that coach. It’s rare you have that kind of a load on a coach

I'm glad you came to a solution. I don't remember if I commented before, but if I did, it was something along the lines of hoping you found the solution.

Doesn’t make sense. Used the same tester multiple times on various power options but it only shows bad on one of them. Even going direct to the 3500 should, in theory, show bad if it’s truly the tester. Right?

I worked with a lot of electrical stuff from HVAC to generators over the last 35 years and never owned one of those outlet testers till just recently. I always used a meter and amp clamp, which means I never got to experience being led astray by some fancy little gadget!

Thanks for the update! I almost bailed on this purchase!

LMAO. YOU GOT ME GOING WHEN YOU SAID YOU IDENTIFY AS AN ELECTRICIAN.

Thank you. Was thinking of getting this same one for my 5th wheel Backup.

Haters gonna be haters, and the keyboard warriors are always gonna be around... to boost their own egos I guess, I really don't know why. Thanks for the video and thanks to those who helped you figure out the problem.

Great video & perspective! 🤜🏻💥🤛🏻

My Klein outlet tester also showed 30v open neutral on the outlet on my Genmax gm3500iaed 3500w generator. I wasn't getting power from the two 20a AC outlets so I saw this and tested the outlet with my multimeter. All I got was 6.4v and it is impossible to get in touch with the manufacturer or the warranty service. I hate sending it back since it now has gasoline in it and it will be a pain boxing it up

It is a great Video! and a great explanation of how you troubleshoot a problem.

My question. I believe in your short video, you pluged your tester into the 120v duplex outlets of the small gen and read fine. Do they have an internal bonded neutral? If so, I wonder why isn't the twistlock recep bonded? Would it be prudent to bond the twistlock? The bond would be at the source as should be.

Happy to see this play out to a good end! Glad to here your shits not fucked lol

I love the predator 3500, i have two of them. Work great 👍

Great video love ya work! 👍🤟

I had the same issue, I Purchased a bonding neutral plug for my generator. Issue solved!

Thanks for sharing

It would be cool to have a Xtra pair of test leads for your multimeter and then wire up a standard 110 volt male plug to the end to where you could just plug your meter into the wall. Good info thanks

You got that right internet sucks because of these big bad keyboard warriors!

I guessed the problem might have been the meter but I didn't know. I'm not an electrician but when troubleshooting I never assume anything.

Your neutral bonding needs to be considered, otherwise your setup is potentially dangerous. That cord is expecting a connection that includes bonding in the panel box.

Thanks for the video! I have a Grand Design 22MLE, which is a 30amp rig.. my 12v lights and fridge have an issue while on the generator. 120v items are fine... do you think my converter has an issue with only seeing 30v?

Awesome video👍👍👍

I have the same generator predator 3500. Trying to run my camper a/c. 13500 btu. It will run the a/c fan and compressor but if anything else is plugged into camper (phone charger or small tv). It will blink when the compressor kicks on. Every time. Fan already running but when compressor kicks on it’s just enough draw to blink everything else. Is it simply just to small of generator? I can run the camper off of 20amp plugged into my garage wall and this doesn’t happen. Just looking for other ideas to check. Generator has 30 hours to on it. Not in economy mode.

We have the same generator for our 30 watt 5th wheel and we just tried to use it to just run the ac and our generator couldn’t handle it. It was also 98° outside and wandered if the generator circuit board was overheating 🤷🏽‍♀️

I saw some video on YT where they guy had a standard NEMA 5-15Plug that he bought of of EBAY that fixed this issue in a way and for the life of me I can find the video.......He actually just plugged it into the Generators NEMA outlet even though he was useing the Hubble outlet.

If you plugged a Neutral-Ground Bonding Plug into the 3500, would that solve the problem with the tool? Asking for a friend. 😉

Try a neutral-ground bonding plug

Problem starts at 4:02

Nice job. Call em out!! Can't comment and run!!!... .. I have had stuff like this kick my butt. I am NOT an electrician. But i am a good mechanic and i understand how things work.. So in hindsight you forgot to verify the verifier!. Yep. It lied to ya. And that can also get ya killed. Nice job figuring it out man. I lean on people to help regularly and they do it! I love people(some of em)... short story , a tic tracer, a kind of voltage detector will lie to ya too. I had the meter in my hand while I'm inside the house getting voltage readings on a pipe with wires in it disconnected at both ends and the houses meter(main disconnect) in my hand. I'm walking circles around the house like where is the extension cord that is powering this house!?. Nope Chinese garbage product lying to ya. Well in the products defense there WAS voltage in that pipe. 0.00033247 of a volt (ghost voltage ,happens when you put any 2 dissimiliar metals any where near each other). Iyiyiyy. Forehead slap.. i learned tho!.... p.s. i just bought this jenny. Hope to make friends with it this year. It was a refurbished one that i walked out the door paying 600$for.

Ugh ok so now I feel better about buying one of these

Wait, why doesn't the big generator do the same thing?

Bond your ground and neutral at your generator. Cheap, easy, safe.

Ok good, the genset works. But someone please (dummy) explain the safe simple solution to deal with the RV ground fault issue.

How did you even keep yours running off the shelf? My brother couldn't even keep his running only after a few hours of running and he did everything the manual said. It started running like it wasn't getting fuel. Not impressed by Predator as of now.

I run my air conditioner in my 8x18 30 amp camper, 11,000 BTU with a 2000 watts generator, no soft starter.

I have 3500 predator inverter that has caused the resin in CDI to be cracked, so the spark plug is not firing . I tested the spark plug, carb is getting gas. About 7 months ago I replaced the CDI & I thought I had fixed the problem, I think something else is causing the CDI problem . HELP

Flux capacitor is a problem. Duh..Everybody knows that.

wow good info

That's plenty enough power for your rv you can put your ac on and run everything else except the microwave but if you want to run your microwave you just need to turn your ac off then when you are done with the microwave turn your ac back on really people are just dumb

You do still have a problem though. When using the 3500 watt generator it sounds like your neutral isn't bonded (grounded) anywhere, so it can float to potentially dangerously high voltages. Also if you don't have the RV ground grounded anywhere, the ground too can float to a dangerously high voltage. Most people just consider the shock potential, but high voltages on circuits designed for only 120v can jump, igniting a fire inside a wall, appliance or device (not to mention damage electronic devices, like laptops). We had the same problem at our cottage. In our case we had several old appliances, including an old 1970's kettle and a 1970's TV that we used. These older devices, including our metal kettle, often bond the outside to the neutral. What used to happen, seemingly randomly, was when we touched the outside of our kettle we would get a huge electric shock. Initially my father thought the live and neutral was hooked up backwards to the kettle, but flipping them resulted in still getting the huge zap plus now we'd be left with a constant 120v between the kettle and floor (which made your fingers tingle most of the time when touching the plugged in kettle and zapped you with close to 120v when in bare feet). Touching the kettle again, right away, we wouldn't get as big a shock, but if we waited a few minutes the shock would be huge again. The problem confused us for many years and we lived with the old kettle, the old toaster, our old canister vacuum seemingly randomly zapping us. It became something of a laughing joke, with each of us getting randomly zapped over and over... Eventually we figured out this occurred when the TV was on and we then figured out that it was leaking high voltage onto the neutral line relative to the ground (the TV had a 3 prong plug). By grounding the neutral (and house ground) at the panel to a large copper rod hammered into the ground we were able to completely fix the problem. A lack of bonding your neutral to ground and lack of physically grounding your RV/house ground can result in very strange, confusing and dangerous things happening.

You mean a tool that shows ground fault error is displaying ground fault error? You could have said this in your short btw. You just played the content game

This could have all been done in a short without a bunch of stupid commentary. Take it as constructive criticism. If you wanna make youtube videos, listen to the people. The people don't want Multi part videos. Always cram it into one when possible