wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:32:50 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

The extra socket and plug inline with the refrig sounds
good. It is simple, easy to understand, and has zero chance
of back feeding power into the rest of the house. Zero
chance of back feeding power into the power company lines,
and hurting a lineman.
However, it may not meet code as another responder pointed out.

I am looking into someone else's suggestion of an inexpensive
generator interlock product. (See www.interlockkit.com).

There is no such thing, or at least one that I can find.

$150 for a six-by-six inch flat piece of metal is obscene.

Nevertheless, I'm considering buying one, using it as a template to make my
own, then selling the original on Ebay. I figure my net outlay, then, to be
about $10 which is a more reasonable price.

Heck, I might even make more than one, sell the copies for $50 each and
retire to a mobile home in Bakersfield!

If I decide to do that, members of this group will get first crack at the
product.