I decided to add a couple of photos of my Gen transfer panel..
I added digital Volt and ammeters on the left side so I can monitor the gen voltage and current. One meter for each leg..
Inside the door, the top breakers which in this panel are opposing left breaker is from gen and right breaker is feed from main panel.
The two breakers are held together by a retainer under the panel front.
There is a metal strap which fits under the panel front and fits the channel between the breakers and comes up to the breaker handles and a pin drops through the breaker handles tying the two breaker handles together loosely. There has to be enough slop to allow breakers to trip but not to much so when you push one breaker on the opposite breaker flips off.
Neat, simple yet very effective.
I started out with a smaller gen panel but it didn't have enough circuits.. So, I was able to use the parts from the small panel and moved them to a bigger panel with same breaker layout so that panel in the pix was a $60 panel without a main breaker.. And yeah, the gen has a 60A breaker on a gen that only can supply 30A.. I used what I had at the time but keeping in mind the gen HAS built in 30A breakers so the wiring and gen is safe.. Only using that breaker as a switch in this case.
