RV genset to power a house
After spending the last 2 days with out electricity and having to use our 3500 watt Kipor with a ton of extension cords, I am wondering if the Kipor could be used to power the house. I was told by a ...
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720Deere wrote:
It doesn't much matter if the main breaker is off if you have a fault somewhere and end up energizing the neutral.
A cheapo interlock isn't going to help with that problem either, being a purely mechanical device. A computerized transfer switch (read $$$$$) might detect that fault condition, it might not.
I guess that's where the sparky and your local code enforcement agent come into, adding to the $$$$$ but hopefully one of them checks to see if that fault exists.
$2-3000 on sparky, permits, etc is cheaper than a multi-million dollar civil suit judgement for manslaughter but I guess I'm a gamblin man!
