Posted by ScottyHOMEy on December 15, 2008 at 21:24:03 from (70.105.224.63):
In Reply to: Re: generator hock up posted by Jon Hagen on December 15, 2008 at 17:18:26:
That (the brain fade factor) to me, along with having all my circuits available to me, is the beauty of the interlock.
As far as defeating it, there'll be holy old he11 to pay around here if I ever find anybody taking the cover off the panel. My second thought on that is, why would you? If someone were to buy the house and not have the right plug on their generator cord, they might plug into something else and backfeed, but they would or could do that whether the interlock was there or not. You don't need to pull the cover off the panel to defeat it.
I got lucky in setting mine up. The house panel is on an outside wall. The other side of that wall is under a covered porch so it was a short run of cable and no trouble to hook up, which was a blessing in material and labor costs. Biggest expense was 15' of 60A 3+1-wire cable with the appropriate plugs. (OUCH!!) That and the genny is undercover when running, as am I at hookup and refueling times.
One thing I did do, as the setup faces the road and theft can be a problem out here in the country, is run a cable from the light hook on the gen-set. To tie it down, I cutout the wall to the adjacent utility room and mounted a single-door weatherproof cover-plate for a duplex outlet, but left out the box and outlet. Just inside the utility room, I drilled two holes in the floor and epoxied a hoop of rebar extending an inch or so deeper than the slab into the holes, and lock the other end of the cable to that. When not in use, the generator is out of sight in the garage.
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