Installed a $1,300 investment to avoid kicking myself in the head if the grid goes down.

[kjhall]

Have you tested it?
I have a similar setup but when we had a power outage, the truck would not allow the connection and would throw the breaker on the 30amp connection in the truck.
But when I hooked it up to generator the Generlink worked fine. Not sure why yet

Yes it works great. But I also got the disconnect problem when I first plugged in the Lightning.

To resolve it I had to disconnect the ground line between the generator plug (where the Lightning plugs in) and the Generac panel. The Lightning apparently doesn't like the bonded neutral (lots of discussion about this on the forum). The outlets are still grounded inside the panels, but the truck ground (how can it have a ground if it's on rubber??) is not connected.

Similarly, the Emporia charger showed an error (2 slow, 5 fast LED flashes), with continuous beeping when I plugged it into the off-grid inverter. Turns out it REQUIRES a bonded neutral. To resolve this I simply connected the neutral and ground from 14-50R plug together in the neutral connection on the inverter. Problem solved.

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[flyct]

Have you tested it?
I have a similar setup but when we had a power outage, the truck would not allow the connection and would throw the breaker on the 30amp connection in the truck.
But when I hooked it up to generator the Generlink worked fine. Not sure why yet

The reason it throws the breaker on the truck is the truck senses a ground fault because the Neutral and Ground are bonded together at your house by code.

If you disconnect the ground connection from your truck to the house generator inlet it would work and the truck’s breaker would not instantly trip. All your outlets and appliances in your house would still be grounded through your house wiring. All the GFCI outlets will still trip if they had a Ground Fault.

I’m not recommending you do this but talk to your electrician for advice.