Please wait...
Ill keep the rant to a minimum on this one. As i have bitched about before, they have declared war on trees, farms, wildlife, dirt... and are putting up houses in my county as fast as they can.
Had to run to the vet yesterday, and on the way I pass one of the new developments. Not been past in a couple of weeks ( its also on the way to the hardware store ). And in those 2 weeks. must be 100 houses magically appeared out of the dust..
How in the hell do they build this crap that fast? My dad and grandfather were in the building industry so I know it does not take a long time to grow a cookie cutter house in a development, but this is frightening how many ... In a year, there will be no dirt left here.
I have something similar as a fallback plan here. I have a male plug
protuding from a wall that is connected to the house's
distribution/protection box. It goes through a switch in order to
ensure you cannot connect the generator to the house wiring as the same
That's the correct way to do it. An inlet receptacle (male) attached to an interlock switch in the main panel to prevent the main and auxiliary sources from both being connected at the same time. It prevents backfeeding the grid, and it prevents mains power from appearing on the inlet.
That is how I have my home set up as well. In my last home I had the interlock on a "pony panel" and moved all of my generator-capable loads to it, and it had interlocked main breakers for feeds from either the generator inlet or the main panel. A couple of years later I sold the house to an electrician
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With most things there is a 'right way' a 'duct tape way' and the 'wrong way'
Somewhere between "right" and "duct tape" is where i normally fall. Most things in life are NOT worth effort to do it by the book. But i don't want a bunch of tape holding things together either..
That's the correct way to do it.