are/can generators be used uncovered in the rain?

Spose you'd like one through your Solar panel ?

Phhffff

Wouldn't matter anyway they still work as they are Unisolar

Come over to the light and rid yourself of that noisy anti social box of demons.

HA

And a kilo into YOUR fuel tank !

It wouldn't stop my beast ... you can have it if you like.

:)

Jack

Depends on just what he connects to the earth stake does it not?

Hi Allan

Simply earthing the frame of the genny or the van increases the risk if an insulation breakdown/leakage occurs due to moisture
It could become an earthed neutral system with no RCD protection
Also other problems could arise with wet ground & step voltages
The risk is low but does exist ,so why increase the risk with an earth stake that gains nothing

Peter

Yep I totally agree with Peter

I might be the dill to here

I make a bit of a cover over the genny out of a bit of plastic tarp and a couple of sticks keep the lead plugs covered with a plastic bag and never a problem
cheers
bigfoot

Hi Bigfoot

""and never a problem ""???

Perhaps the right day has not just come YET???

Plastic bags are hardly a weather proof protection for 240v !!
Plastic tarp covering the set , to bad if it contacts hot metal /exhaust & melts
Will not be much good then.
Or restricts ventilation, overheating genny.

Yep,"no problem" yet!!!


Fully isolated Weather proof units with weather proof plugs & sockets are a low risk .

Peter

Peter,

I think you might be being a bit "precious" mate...... ;-)

I'm confident that is the cover is set-up like a tent over the gennie, then it would be 100% okay. A 6 foot x 3 foot plastic tarp, spread across a 6 foot long expanse of rope with 18" of the tarp to either side (like an old-fashioned tent arrangement), about a foot about the gennie, so that the sides are at about the same height as the 240v outlet, would be very bloody difficult to have any problems.

Having said that, on the occasions when I have needed to run my little Yammie 1kva gennie during rain, I simply set it up underneath the rear end of my dual cab Patrol.....never had a problem.

A bit of common sense goes a long long way, but some folks are just a bit too scared of every possible consequence that MAY occur.

Sure, there are many things that COULD go wrong....if that's how you live your life, you may as well stay at home in the safety of your RCD-protected home.

Hi Roach"ee"

If you read Big foot's post ,that is hardly what HE described.

YES, IF well covered with no chance of moisture getting into plugs/sockets or windings [weather proof] OK
AS per my 1st post above

Have you seen the result of 240v plugs getting a little moisture in them

Have you ever been zapped by stray earth voltages???

I have had to investigate such occurrences

"common sense"? ahhh, that special quality we all hear about but often do not see practised as in the OP

I know that many do not want to hear or believe that 240v from ANY source can be dangerous
WATER increases the risk dramatically

Sadly people have died using gennys & inverters & many/most shocks are not reported[possibly because after the event they realized that "common sense ""had not been used]

Perhaps I do have a phobia, but even ONE life lost or seriously injured is one too many

Peter

What is "pole out"?