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Ok so I noticed on my surge protector it has a red not grounded light illuminated whenever I use it on my generator. The green light is still illuminated and says protected. I checked the ground wire on my generator and it has a nice clean ground. I heard that portable generators are grounded differently then a house. Supposedly my surge protector is suppose to filter the power too. Whenever I plugged it into the wall outlet at my house the ground light was green. So what's the problem? Are surge protectors not effective on a generator or does it just not recognize the ground?