RV to power home temp
Does anyone use their rv to power their house during power outages?
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JaxDad wrote: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.
What voltage is being stepped up? Where is the 120VAC potential on the secondary of the utility transformer? Only one wire is connected to the transformer, the neutral lead, and the other two are floating.
No backup generator transfer switch for a sticks-and-bricks house, at least any one that I've happened upon, switches the neutral.
