Posted by ScottyHOMEy on January 30, 2009 at 14:30:03 from (64.222.201.63):
In Reply to: Generator Hook Up O/T posted by kmcampbe on January 30, 2009 at 11:26:44:
I'm LOL a little at John T's intoroduction. Couldn't blame him for bein' tired. He posted his heiney off on this subject a month or two ago when that storm came through and knocked out a lot of the upper midwest and northeast.
That said, his advice and Pete Black's are good.
My own generator (15/22.5kW) has a four-prong connector for a house connection, and I run a cord to a four-prong connection hard-wired to a 50A double breaker, with one of the slider-type lockouts to prevent backfeeding. All to code.
The issue of the neutral being bonded to the frame is on spot.
Most of the generators out there are of two, overlapping general types. There's the one better suited for contractors looking for power at remote sites. That one will have the neutral bonded to the frame. You likely will not find a four-prong outlet on one of those.
The other (and typically larger) type can power tools or a house and will have at least one outlet with four prongs.
Trick is that the size you're looking at kind of falls in the high load range of the former, the smaller end of the range for the latter, and could be either. 8/13.5kw is certainly enough to keep a house running if you manage your loads. The owner's manual with it may (OR MAY NOT!) provide some guidance.
And even if your new generator should have a four-prong outlet, dollars to donuts you don't have something with four prongs on the house end yet to plug it into.
In this case, until you're wired correctly to your panel, you'd be better off running extension cords of sufficient capacity off your generator outlets to your critical needs (furnace, freezer, water pump . . . and enboug lights to find your way around), even if that means putting a plug and receptacle in the hard wiring to the furnace (i.e., most of the time it will be plugged into the hard wiring from the box, but to the generator during outages, meaning you have to buy two female plugs for the power side to every male plug for the appliance side) or the water pump, if that's an issue.
Stay warm and let us know how you're making out. And, whatever you do, make SURE your main breakers are off (or main fuses removed) before you hook the generator to the house.
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