On 2010-05-12, John B Slocomb wrote:
wrote:
If many homes are connected to the house backfeeding the grid, then
the generator would be running those homes.

You are right, however if everyone in the reservation is on vacation
in Florida you might have enough power to put out secondary voltage
from the pole transformer and linemen get all antsy about grabbing a
4,000 volt wire (you usually only get to do it once) and so will be
very stroppy if they discover you with some sort of kludge as a
generator connection.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone after the broken power line, would need
to not be using electricity at all, otherwise backfeeding would simply
stall the generator.

I've found most high voltage electricians to be very conservative - if
it might be hot, don't touch it.

I would say "most surviving HV electricians".

It is like saying "there are no old bold captains".

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