In a message dated 10/30/01 12:46:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Recovry4x4@aol.com writes:
<< Going along with what Joe Young said, if you plan on running the whole
house,
a transfer switch equal to your current service is required. Even the most
basic NEMA certified mechanical switch is expensive. After battling on
several fronts, I picked a 200 amp switch for just under a thousand. The
cheapest 200amp I could find. My genset is a 30KW and comfortably runs the
entire house.
Kenneth Engle
>>
An alternative is to create a "sub-panel" of just the essential circuits. In
my house, these are the fridge, furnace, water pump, and a few lights in the
central area of the house. These together are fed by a 100-amp panel. The
generator cross-over switch isolates this sub-panel. Therefore I only needed
a 100 amp switch. They are not nearly as expensive as stated. A 200-amp one
is around $400. My 100-amp one was a dumpster find from a demolition site.
It is not automatic, or complicated. Just a 2-pole, double throw switch,
with constant neutral. a p bloom
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