🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 06:10:54 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>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.

That depends on (a) whether anybody else has anything turned on and
(b) exactly what lines are down.

Seriously, code requires isolation.  If you're not isolated Big
Brother's gonna getcha.  At least in this town where they pay some
dweeb to measure dandelions and levy huge fines if they're over a
foot.