[Pilotdave]

Theo, are you saying that there is a screw terminal on your cutout that has no wires attached to it? On the terminal with two wires.....does one of them attach to a spot on the generator? Or do both go to other places in the wiring system?

If one of those two wires attached to the terminal does attach to the generator, then the cutout can't function as the on-off switch that Tom described. The wire from the generator should be attached to one terminal and the second wire should be attached to the other terminal. Going by memory here but often the terminals are marked in some way such as 'Gen' and 'Bat' indicating that the first is connected to the generator, the second to the wiring harness.