Inverter Weirdnes

[CatsupGladiator]

I know I'm just supposed to be grateful the angry pixies come out of the outlet in the cab or bed and can charge my laptop, 18V power pack, or some other load upto around 3 Amps.

But I'm a curious fellow, and there is some weirdness on either receptacle with my meter. Hot to Neutral 120 VAC that perfectly normal, but from Hot to Ground or Neutral to Ground I get 60 VAC. This seems like the inverter acting like Split Phase 240, but at 1/4 the voltage.

This will generally work for aforementioned applications, it just seems like an odd (heavily cost reduced) way of supplying 120V AC to the outlets.

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[Trucklet]

I have no idea what you're saying, but I don't like it Isn't it generally really bad to have ANY voltage leakage into the ground leg?

Edit: My multimeter prongs at work don't fit into the outlet's hot/neutral slots without ruining the plastic, and so I'll have to wait until tonight to verify that my wiring is the same.

But I asked an electrical engineer about this and he wasn't surprised, and said something about how since there's no true "earth ground" in a vehicle this would be a way to accomplish 120V across the 2 legs by running a pair of 60V out of phase. Or something like that... I'm probably butchering it. Don't touch the sparky bits.