[Cialug] Mailling List Admin

[James Shoemaker]

L. V. Lammert wrote:
>>  It isn't how good the disconnection is that they are worried about,
>> it's the possibility that someone will neglect to flip the breaker once.
>>  with the DPDT it's impossible to power the line from your generator
>> socket.
>>
> Spokey by a true theorist! No portable generator has enough load capacity
> to power the entire area [called backfeeding]. If you don't flip/open the
> main breaker when hooking up a generator, there's no way the generator is
> going to carry the load for the rest of the neighrborhood.

    Say the break is BETWEEN your transformer and the rest of the line.

James