RV to power home temp
Does anyone use their rv to power their house during power outages?
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DrewE wrote:
Having the neutral connected with the hots disconnected does not pose any threat of backfeeding the grid. You can't have a circuit with a single wire, and without a circuit there's no power transfer. Indeed, since the neutral is bonded to earth ground, it can't even rise or fall in potential very much at all.
A generator is back-feeding a house with the mains switched off. Power is out because of a windstorm, the ground is dry and there's poor conductivity to ground from ground rod.
Miles down the road a linesman is working on supposedly 'dead' cables, the 120 volts from the generator is now stepped via the transformer to 12k - 17k volts.....
No potential you say?
People can die from as little as 9 volts.
People HAVE died from this very situation.
