On Dec 10, 12:16*pm, willshak wrote:
on 12/9/2009 10:38 PM (ET) RBM wrote the following:

"Art Todesco" wrote in message
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On my new house I had the electrician install a generator panel.
He also put an inlet connector outside the house. *This connector
is a 4 pin female connector in a box with a hinged cover. *Shouldn't
this be a male connector? *So that you don't have a male to male
cord leading to the possibility of a hot male connector.
Does anyone know what the NEC says about this?
Or any other comments?
Thanks.

You are correct, It should be a flanged inlet, which is male. The female
cord body from the *generator plugs onto it

No. All outlets should be female. Yes, the generator is also a female
outlet. Generators do not come with the power cords, you have to
make/have made a power cord with both ends male, as I have had made by a
licensed union electrician..



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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Then, as an electrician that was trained by the National Joint
Apprenticeship Training Committee (NJATC) of the National Electrical
Contractors Association (NECA) and the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers (IBEW) I am embarrassed by his work. Double male
Cords are never needed, legal, or safe.
--
Tom Horne