Doug Miller wrote:

In article , CJT wrote:

Doug Miller wrote:


In article ,

Jim Redelfs wrote:

In article ,
Puddin' Man wrote:



I switch off the main breaker and use a gas powered 40A generator
to backfeed the 30A (220v) circuit for the elec. dryer.

What can I expect? Live circuits, dead circuits? Overload
conditions??

Dead linemen?

Yeah, yeah... You switched off the main breaker, but, in your urgency and in

the dark, flipped the WRONG breaker.


Oh, puhleeeze... don't be ridiculous.

If he has enough light (from a flashlight, candle, oil lamp, moonlight,
sunlight, cig lighter, Coleman lantern, jar full of fireflies, or whatever)

to

connect the generator, how do you imagine that he can't see which breaker is
the main?

For that matter, even in the dark, how does he not *feel* which breaker is

the

main?

And of course it should be obvious that, once the generator is on, there
*will* be lights available to check to make *sure* that the main is off.


Properly install and use a transfer switch or just run some extension cords

to

essential appliances during the outage.


Or be aware of the difference between real and imagined hazards, take steps

to

prevent the real ones (such as making sure the main breaker is off), and
ignore the imagined ones. Yes, a transfer switch is the right way to do it.
No, you can't just run an extension cord to a furnace or a well pump. In an
emergency, you do what you have to do.


Since this is apparently an anticipated event (or we wouldn't be
discussing it), there's no excuse for allowing it to escalate into an
emergency.


Sure, and in a perfect world ever home would have a transfer switch already
installed.

And in a perfect world, nobody would accidentally flip a breaker.


Is there one in your house?



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