I know that the Electric Company guys in Michigan take great joy in the
over-feeding of generators and the resulting BOOM that goes with it.. so at
least turn off your main breaker. :)
Backfeeding is fairly easy and perfectly safe if you do it right, you just
have to turn off the main breaker and be smart about the order in which you
do things. If done right, you never have live male prongs, and no linemen
(or homeowners) can get hurt. My folks have a 6500w generator and a
checklist the Master Electrician son made to go with it for order of
connecting/disconnecting. Plus makes it easy for Mom if Dad isn't home.
Backfed via a dryer-style outlet with an 8' cord that allows the generator
to sit outside the garage.
Wallyman
Russ
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09/02/2008 02:10 PM Subject
Re: NPC: Having problems back
feeding my house with a
generator
Yep, it certainly requires some thought to use the backfeeding
method... but it works and is easy.
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What's the government have to fear if people develop the ability to
overthrow it? If the US Regime is not doing anything wrong, they don't
have anything to worry about, right?
On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Simon Whitworth wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Eric McCord
> <atomiccarlton@???> wrote:
>> I have to agree with the problem being in the household breaker
>> panel. I
>> have a Emergency Power Transfer Switch kit that I purchased with my
>> generator last winter. I have yet to hook it up but it wires into the
>> household breaker panel and controls 6 circuits. It is rated for
>> generators
>> up to 8000 watts. It isolates the circuits from the house panel. I
>> paid $200
>> at Lowes. Made by Reliance Model Number 30216BRK.
>
> In my opinion a transfer switch is the only safe way to go, I'm sure
> your utility company would agree. The don't like having linemen
> electrocuted because someone was backfeeding their home through a
> dryer outlet and forgot to to turn off the main breaker when running
> from a generator in a power outage. The thought of live male connector
> pins on the cable feeding your 220v outlet also seems so wrong.
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