The problem I see is, no matter how many people die because of mistakes made by backfeeding (i.e. "oops, I forgot to flip the main" or "my husband usually does it") people still INSIST on doing it, and INSIST that it's safe, "as long as I do X, Y, and Z."
Well it is safe as long as you do X, Y, and Z, but what if you forget to do X, Y, or Z in the heat of the moment? What if you're out of town and the wife/kid who has only been TOLD/SHOWN how to set up the generator has to do it? Is the linesman any less dead?
Sometimes the only way to get people's attention is a slap in the face. BnD's got your attention doesn't he? He's making you think about changing how you backfeed your house with your generator, isn't he? Mission accomplished.
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Generators - by Chris Pratt. As a companion to the articles on three-brush and two-brush generators, it seemed fitting that we should provide our readers with a description of how a generator works in lay terms. The difficulty with all those "theory of operation" texts is that they border on principles of electricity or physics and such. Since I know nothing of either, you will have to put up with looking at the common sense side of how generators work which means we "
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