sparktrician said: (quoted from post at 14:22:50 12/15/08) With the "slew" of posts lately on backup generators, and transfer switches, I thought I would post this...
In my profesional master electrician and electrical contractor opinion, if you expect to have a power outage for long periods of time, or have intentions of running your house, farm, buisness, ect. off of a generator, INSTAL A TRANSFER SWITCH NOW!!! Do it before you need it, Chances are you may never need it. A manual transfer switch is not that expensive in the big picture. I would reccomend that a licensed electrical contractor install this equipment, and be inspected. How much money are you looking at???
100amp manual transfer switch $329.00
200amp manual transfer switch $510.00
400amp manual transfer switch $775.00
Depending on the situation, most generally these can be installed in 6 to 10 hours. There are several other options availiable also. If you wait till the power is out, you will be left to "afro engineer" a setup that usually involves pulling the meter, or turning off main breaker. NOT RECOMENDED, TO MUCH CAN GO WRONG!!! Call your local electrical contractors and get a quote, have it done right and SAFE!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!! STAY SAFE>>>>
Good advice. One thing I would say is that for a non-pro, reasonably knowledgable, handyman it is not difficult to install. It took about 3 hrs and that included drilling hole to the outside, putting a receptacle box on the brick exterior to accept the cord from the generator.
I would add that I should have got a 10 circuit switch instead of a 6-circuit. The 6 circuits allow me to have power to just about every room in the house, but for the few extra bucks it would have been worth it to add the microwave, workshop plugs, dishwasher, garbage disposal, i.e. non-essential stuff. My 13500/8500 generator has hardly been strained with the 6 circuits.
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