Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 06 Feb 2005 23:04:36 GMT, Ian Stirling wrote:

If the lighting ring is adequate for the loads you want to use, and
you are confident that your system is reliable enough to run 24*7.

Lighting ring? Most houses don't have a lighting ring it's just a long
spur looping in/out from each fitting.

I know, I was more meaning 'any low-power circuit', I don't do house
electrics often enough.


Doing it ideally is more complex.

Not so much "ideally" as safely. Once you connect a generator to any,
normal, permenant wiring you need a fail safe change over method and a
good local earth.

You don't need a complex automated one though, with a UPS (the UPS ground
must of course be earthed, and preferably have a RCD on the output),
a socket for the generator output, and one for the mains will work, with
plug being moved manually.