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Default Interlock locks to be used in lieu of transfer switch

According to Solar Flaire :
Not on your life. This device has no lockable, visual, manual switch
between the generator and the grid. "Automatic" is just not allowed
for human protection.


Nonsense. Otherwise every large scale auto-start generator/UPS
(including the _humungous_ ones we have) would be illegal.

Yes, they'll have manual switches as a disconnecting means, for test
etc. But that doesn't mean that when the system is in normal
operation it can't operate the transfer switch automatically.

There is a need for a lockable switch to isolate the device for
linesman protection. The automatic portion is to eliminate backfeeds
and/or other system protection/ convenience requirements.


Backfeed elimination is isolation for linesman protection. That's
what transfer switches do.

Never for human protection.


Linesmen aren't human?
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