On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:37:24 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Jun 14, 11:32*am, dpb wrote:
Dottie wrote:

...

neighbors is a licensed electrician and his setup is very plain and
simple. *...

But in all likelihood, correctly done.

Plus, the dude will know what he's doing; OP obviously doesn't (nothing
wrong about that other than trying to get by w/o getting proper input)
and his description makes it sound like he's got a questionable
arrangement at best...

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Here is a link to some pictures of the configuration:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...ome-and-garden

It is as simple as getting the proper 120/240 plug and wire and using
the ground screw in the connection box to connect the ground wire
coming from the plug? The red and black will be hoy and the white will
be neutral.



It looks like the original owner had the generator cord "hard wired"
into the box. He also failed to use a weatherproof connector. It
should be one of these. http://tinyurl.com/4k23rs

You could also hard wire a cord, or you could mount an inlet box.
http://tinyurl.com/3uky6o
You can't use the existing box for an inlet box because the plug is
too big to fit in a single gang box.

The cord you need is 10/3 SO cord. Because of the possibility of
fire, you should not put the generator too close to the house, but you
also don't want the cord any longer than necessary. I would go with
10 feet.

It needs a NEMA 10-30R on the generator end and either hard wire it
into the box or use a NEMA 10-30P for the inlet end.

You have to ground the frame of the generator to either the house
ground rod or a separate ground rod.