toller wrote:
It wasn't really an electrician who installed it, was it?

Everything about it is illegal everywhere. It has to be impossible to
connect to the genny without first disconnecting the line, and visa versa.



As far as my friend knows thy're licensed. It's a good sized firm he
used, the same group which wired his home when he built it about ten
years ago.

based on what "I-zheet M'drurz" said above, I'm coming to realize that
the electrician's fixed work is probably perfectly legal, and it would
be my friend's actions, not his, which might be illegal or actionable if
he fried a lineman. I forgot to mention that the electrician installed a
double 30 amp breaker in the feed to/from that receptical he installed
in the garage, to match the 30 amp full load rating of the genny my
friend bought. That should make that outlet perfectly legal.

I suppose if someone got fried by that double male plug cord, and it
could be proved without question that it was the electrician who made it
up and sold it to my friend the electrician might be in difficulty
legally, but proving who made it up would likely be near impossible
several years from now, 'eh?

I guess it's like a hiring a contractor to add on a second story porch
for you, with a code height railing. He can't be held responsible if you
decide to stand a potted plant on the corner of the railing which then
gets blown off and causes brain damage to the electric company's meter
reader who happens to be below at the time, not expecting things to fall
on him.

Jeff

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