"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:59:44 -0500, "Chas Hurst"
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"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:33:06 GMT, "Ivan Vegvary"
wrote:

Okay, I've read this entire thread. The previous owner of my house used
to
put his portable generator in the greenhouse, mainly to cut noise. Note
that the greenhouse is approx. 100 feet from the main panel which is
inside
the house. Greenhouse had sub-panel with a sixty amp breaker. Said 60
amp
line was fed from another subpanel in the pantry of the house by another
60
amp breaker. Said panry sub-panel was fed by the main panel of the
house
through another 60 amp breaker.

Procedu He would shut off his 200 amp main breaker, and then shut
off
all 3 60 amp breakers. Fire up his generator and back feed through a
"suicide cord" in the green house. At this point he would flip back the
three 60 amp breakers one at a time mainly to feed water pump and
refrigerator etc.

Question: This all sounds pretty complicated and I want no part of it.
However, I would like to buy a 5K± generator and use the proper transfer
switch. Is there any way of using a transfer switch and NOT locate the
generator at the main panel. Due to many remodels our main panel is 10
feet
from the nearest outside wall, and, if the generator were to be placed
as
close as possible, that would put it in a 2 foot wide sideyard. Any way
to
do a transfer switch with the generator NOT located close to the panel?

Thanks,

Ivan Vegvary

Sure. The transfer switch must be at the panel, but the genny could
be anywhere. You just need to run suitable wire from the transfer
switch to the genny. 5KW gennies typically have 20-amp breakers so
12-gage wire should suffice.

And how does one get the existing wire stretched to the transfer switch?

One doesn't. One locates the transfer switch where the existing wire
already is, at the panel as said above.

And what becomes of the existing breaker panel? Does it hang by the wires
connected to it.