I want to back feed the house and the GFCI trips. Where would I find the Neutral to disconnect? Once I do, I will terminate with a connector for stand alone when needed. Additionally, I do not recommend disconnecting the built in GFCI protection that is installed in the generator unit by the manufacturer. There are illegal methods of connecting a generator to a home to provide temporary power that can be very dangerous and these methods should never be used.
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Connect your Red and Black wires to that v double breaker which in my case was the dryer breaker. Again, it doesn't matter what order you connect the red and black wires to the breaker in.
Make sure all your connections are solid and there there are no bare wires that could cause issues. Start up the generator atleast 10' or so away from the house with the exhaust pointing away from the building.
I would reccomend not putting it in the garage. It will not hurt the gen to have snow fall on it. For your own safty!!! After the Gen has warmed up for about 5 minutes. After noticing there are no sparks flying. Go inside the panel and turn on the GEN breaker. Then turn on each breaker one by one. The best one to start would be the breaker for the basement or where the panel is so you can have light. Hope this helps.
The good way to do it is install a sub panel with a manual throw switch. The manual throw disconnects the primary service and switches it to the generator.
This is pretty much code. Your power is single phase. One service lead provides power to the left side of your breaker box, the other lead provides power to the right side. If you want, you can redo your breakers so you only need to provide power to one side of the box to power your necessary items. I used 6AWG, 3 conductor with a ground. I used female - female to female cable. I provide two 30 AMP legs to my sub panel.
I have the fridge, TV with antenna , microwave, some lights, all of the fish stuff, and a couple convenience outlets. Pushing power back into your house over a standard wall outlet isn't the best method, but it can work in a pinch. You just need to wire in a breaker at the maximum rating of your cable, that feeds back into your house. If you are running it through a 14 AWG then put a 15 amp breaker between the generator and plug. You need to remember that constant load should only be 70 percent of the breakers rated capacity.
If you have a 15 amp breaker then you shouldn't put a continuous demand of more than 12 amps on it. You also have to make sure that you have a failsafe method to disconnect the service, otherwise you can kill a lineman who is standing at a pole down the road.
At the least you can get a hefty fine. BTW, if you wire through an outlet, you will not be able to run high loads such as a well pump, furnace sometimes high loads , Electric heat of any kind, etc.
Like the poster above said, installing a sub panel would be better more permanent way of doing it. In a quick pinch though, running without installing a sub panel will be fine. After you get power back, I would get someone in to have the panel installed for you. This is the real right way to do it.
Jun 2, 3 48 So. That was excellent. I'm printing out this thread and keeping it. I didnt know Grainger carried transfer switches like that but I'm definitely going to look into them now.
I wrote that thread and then went to town to get the male plug. It's a good thing I took a picture of it to take with, there really are a lot of different configurations! When I got back, I had no idea what wires to hook where- I was hoping to back-feed through a V plug that is only two flat prongs and a round ground. New posts. Search forums. Log in. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Can you back-feed a GFCI breaker in a sub-panel? Status Not open for further replies. Location NoDak. Can you back-feed a GFCI breaker in a sub-panel and have it function as it's designed? Is it only designed to detect a fault to ground on the load side of the breaker? Thanks for any feedback, Sky. Sierrasparky Senior Member. I seriously doubt it will work.
It may even damage the breaker. Besides if forget which code section it will violate but there is a section that prohibits this when the breaker is labled Line and Load. Location NE 9. I have honestly never tried it.
Those things are just to dang expensive. I really doubt it though.
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