We are currently in the midst of an ice storm that has already knocked out power around the region. We are on wait and see status to see if we go dark or get lucky.
So I'm still in the planning phase of what I will be doing if and when I get a generator. My meter is mounted on a Square D distribution panel, which itself has breakers in. This feeds the 200 amp service panel in the house, plus an additional 100 amp service panel in the horse barn. The house panel is full to the gills and even has a few doubles installed. The folks who built this went wild with the electric service. Living room alone has at least 15 different switches, plus nearly that many outlets. Would love to know what the electrician who wired it was thinking......for him it was either a wet dream or worst nightmare depending on his attitude.
Anyway, it finally occurred to me the best place to install a sliding lockout switch would be in the meter's panel box, since all juice flows from that, giving the most flexibility, plus is has open slots to use, and we have access to it from the outside to run the wiring.
So in the midst of this ice storm, I go out to take a look and find this......a panel encased in ice. In the event of an actual outage and I needed to hook up the generator, I'd have to find a way to melt the ice to get it open to flip the switches. If the power was out, I could probably pour warm water on it to melt the ice, but pouring water on a service panel doesn't sound like the smartest thing a person could do.
So I suspect the Generlink, if you can hook it up while encased in ice, would be a good fit for me.
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