It would if the live fed through your house load and back fed the
neutral from the grid.


"Ignoramus10518" wrote in
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:42:47 -0400, daestrom
wrote:
Unless of course one blade comes loose from the handle and sticks
in one
position while the other blade moves to the other position. Some
folks
would notice that and probably do something about it, but a knife
switch
isn't 'failsafe'.

That would not connect the generator to the utility, however.

i

Designing relay and control systems to be truly 'failsafe' is a
whole
science unto its own. :-)