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Don't know why? What would happen if your ground wire going to the house were to break and something were shorted on the generator....you go out to check the set to make sure everything is running good, lean against a metal part in the pouring rain and ZAP...no more Bill W. It's there as a...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having the neutral switched. As far as I'm concerned, I would prefer it that way. By switching the neutral, you have to do nothing to your generator other than drive a ground rod and run it. Then if you want to move the genny and run a remote shop or...

That is not always the case. As Ike just stated, the transfer switch determines whether the generator is a separately derived system or not. There are very specific codes in the NEC for each type of system. If you follow the link I posted earlier in this thread you can see the post I made on...

Good advice, but not necessarrily the proper way to do it. It all depends on how it's wired into the house to do it properly according to the NEC. Here is a thread where I spent quite some time researching the answer for the same situation...MEP-003a hook up question