Guy48065
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Can you post a picture of your setup?...pressure switch...This is where I take a cord and connect my generator.
Can you post a picture of your setup?...pressure switch...This is where I take a cord and connect my generator.
Can you post a picture of your setup?
If you have a well you will have a pressure switch located somewhere close to the storage tank. This is where I take a cord and connect my generator. Surely your pressure switch is not located in your panel so somewhere in that conduit there is a pressure switch that turns the pump on and off.
Remove the line side wiring and attach the cord to the pressure switch. Nothing hard about it at all. Takes less time than connecting cord to outlet and switching all the breakers in the panel off and so forth.
With the line side conductors removed from the switch there is no way to back feed the panel.
Once connected to generator – start generator – go to barn water horses – turn off generator until next time needed for water
Using this method I can use one tank of gas for a week or longer and do not pollute the air with exhaust.
I keep a generator at one property with a twist lock cord permanently wired into a tiny subpanel. I shut off the breaker and then start the genset and then plug in the cord. I keep a insulated cap over the hot cord, zip tie it up high and tag it as hot.
But on my main property, I just backfeed into a 30 amp breaker, shut off the main, shut most everything else off, and run the pump which is FAR away from there. Then the fridge and freezer get fed with extension cords. Beats 800$ for another genset to rot away while not being used. Our power losses are few, and I have 3000g of water up the hill at 30 psi, so needs are small except in a wildfire.
One should always get the genset running before kicking pump on line.
At the time of his death Steve was doing the same thing thousands of tourists do every year--swimming with manta rays. It's the irony that makes his accidental death so interesting.Once upon a time there was a man who liked to play with Crocodiles but he is no longer with us, Steve Irwin.
Certainly--but I just wanted to SEE how yours looks.Nothing hard about it at all.
Certainly--but I just wanted to SEE how yours looks.
Once upon a time there was a man who liked to play with Crocodiles but he is no longer with us, Steve Irwin.
So my advice is to either do things in a safe manner or look forward to meeting Steve. Playing with danger such as described above is a sure way to join the un-living.
Oh I bet there are many more hair-raising setups that no one will admit to. 10 years ago I had AC installed and the installer got into my meter box for some reason. Since then the little lock wire has been visibly and obviously cut and in over 100 visits by the "meter reader" it's never been replaced.
Soooo...when I backfeed my house I pull the meter and connect the genny cord right to the bottom meter lugs. Works for me until such time that I replace my panel.
Nothing because I'm not connected to the grid. You can't get any more positively, verifiably UN-connected than to pull the meter.Now, restore the river, and stand the hell back. What just happened to your generator and anyone standing near it?
Nothing because I'm not connected to the grid. You can't get any more positively, verifiably UN-connected than to pull the meter.
Given a suitable ground, all you need to carry current is one wire. See earth-return systems.
This is awkward, but...
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