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Ground Connection For Furnace And Generator
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:02:03 -0000, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 06:24:00 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 9:45:17 PM UTC-5, wrote: I lost power from the wind storm that hit the Great Lakes area on Wednesday. Last night I borrowed a generator from a friend to get the furnace going. I simply unhooked the wires from the breaker to the switch for the furnace and used an extension cord (with the receptacle end cut off) and wire nutted the hot to hot, neutral to neutral, and ground to ground from the generator to the wire that goes from the switch to the furnace. Everything worked fine, other than the fact that the power came back on less than 3 hours later. It figures. Leave the ground wires attached - as found - - but add connect the generator cord's ground wire. Don't over complicate this. John T. That's fine for emergency hooks up like I did, but I' like to install a plug and play set-up. The one in the video (cord and plug) doesn't "work" because it disconnects the ground from the furnace once the plug is disconnected from the receptacle. Greg's 3-way switch and inlet solves that problem quite nicely. Something like this would be perfect because it could replace the On-Off switch currently installed on the furnace. That's the way I'd do it if I didn't have a transfer switch/interlock at the panel.. Just switch the live from the panel to the genset, and leave everything else connected. My brother did that ay his place - he plugs the "house extention cord" into the generator. It has 4 or 5 outlets strategically located around the house to plug things into, and a 3 way switch on the furnace. - all hard-wired - no extention cords inside the house - and theconnection to the house is the same as the connection to his travel trailer. Ground isn't important. Current only flows through live and neutral. -- System error 4C: kernel panic |
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