Posted by paul on July 22, 2019 at 07:10:06 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Electrical Question posted by John in La on July 21, 2019 at 15:03:53:
It is unsafe because of the human error. People get excited during a power failure, often weather or other serious stuff is going on, and they forget the steps they are supposed to do. When it’s not to code it’s designed with only one person knowing for sure what to do, when that person isn’t around or there are new owners the safety issue gets worse.
You are asking if it works or not don’t care if it is safe. That is really your question.
It creates the potential for a lot of stray voltage, but it works the way you describe as long as there is never any human error involved. If he is running a dairy he will have unhappy cows while that setup is running, they are very sensitive to this.
Grounding a gen set is kind of an art I think, with all the ground rods and different ground loads coming from different areas to those grounds. Kinda hard to get to zero volts sometimes.
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