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In your installation I think you are planning to connect the generator to the house with removable SO cord, think about Speddmon's above example, but when you are just test running the generator without the house load connected. It just makes safety sense to have the ground rod as close as...

On the whole switched neutral question, there area couple of schools of thought, each one has points. One of the big ones has to do with switching a live load and having flexure in the switch contacts particularly on a non spring loaded standard (not quick) knife switch that might allow the...

Remember I am not a professional, but based on my understanding of the NEC it looks like you have a switched neutral at the transfer switch, so you would be under the rules for a separately derived source. So it looks like grounding and bonding needs to be done at the generator in your case...

What kind of transfer switch do you have?

To clarify what was mentioned before, the NEC can consider a generator as a separately derived source, but does not always consider it one. It depends on the type of transfer switch used. Most consumer transfer switches do not transfer the neutral and therefore do not count under the...