🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-04-30 02:08, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:32:08 -0700, Peter Flass <> wrote:
>> J. Clarke <> wrote:
>>> On 28 Apr 2018 22:45:20 -0300, Mike Spencer <> wrote:
>>>> J. Clarke <> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Those generators are costly and require maintenance.  I've thought
>>>>> about getting one but it's more hassle than it's worth for the few
>>>>> times that I've had a serious power outage.  Among other things the
>>>>> generator gets its own load panel to which loads that are considered
>>>>> "critical" are fed, which may mean a good bit of rewiring.
>>>>
>>>> We have wood heat/cooking plus bottled propane backup for cooking in
>>>> hot weather.  Water is hand-pumped.  The gen set in the woodshed isn't
>>>> wired into the house.  A 100' extension cord run through a port bored
>>>> through the house wall feeds the fridge and freezers if an outage is
>>>> more than a few hours.
>>>
>>> I don't live in Novia Scotia, I have a building inspector and a fire
>>> marshall and an electric company and lawyers and the whole nine yards
>>> to deal with.  And they won't allow quite a lot of things.
>>
>> They couldn't stop this. If you wanted to get fancy you could install a box
>> on the outside wall with the appropriate plugs, but not connected to
>> anything. Fire marshal couldn't say anything, but when needed it would be
>> easy to plug in the generator and appliances.
> 
> As long as it is installed to code with GFIs and the whole nine yards.
> Now, plug a generator into it and run the house and if he happens by
> he's going to want to see your isolator that keeps current from
> flowing back into the power lines.  He's not going to be happy to take
> your word for it that you'll flip the main breaker.  And they have
> somebody who is paid to ride around and look for things like that.

You would be supplying your entire neighbourhood, you'd blow your
generator fuse, LOL.

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Cheers, Carlos.