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Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:04:32 +0200
On 8/25/21 15:59, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
How would this not load the generator or inverter into oblivion?
Not sure I understand your question. Say again, please.
(Just curious, I know people who use a suicide cord usually turn off the main breaker.)
At the home, you typically have someone that is responsible for knowing what to do in case of an outage, and switching over to self-generation. If that person is not there, or has passed out from too many bottles of wine that evening, someone else might think it's just a matter of starting the generator, unwinding a suicide cord and plugging it into the wall - totally forgetting about the main breaker.
You need to make these things fool-proof. We haven't traveled in over a year but the day we do, it's a recipe for disaster if the person that deals with this stuff is on the road when the power goes out back at home.
Mark.
Current thread:
- Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Sean Donelan (Aug 23)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Ethan O'Toole (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Ethan O'Toole (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch bzs (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mel Beckman (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Warren Kumari (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Chris Boyd (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Ethan O'Toole (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Aug 25)
- Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch Haudy Kazemi via NANOG (Aug 25)