RV to power home temp
Does anyone use their rv to power their house during power outages?
Forum Discussion
crawford wrote:
it people could read and see the interlock system it is safe and legal and yes you can back feed by turning off main and locking it out you can legally do it. I been doing it for years and never a problem.
It is absolutely NOT legal.
The NEC requires you use a transfer kit or interlock to abolutely ensure you can't feed power back onto the grid (which would be amplified up to 17,000 volts or so by going backwards through your transformer, by the way).
Turning off your mains also doesn’t completely disconnect your house either, it only breaks the two hot legs, the neutral bond remains. This could create potential in lines that the people working on them think are dead and therefore safe.
There’s a reason the cords used to connect this way are called ‘suicide cords’ or ‘deadman cords’.
