Our small generator died during Hurricane Ike in 2008, so I had to stand in line at Home Depot and bought a 8.5 kw Generac. Of course, the power came back on after a day instead of being out for a week like they had been saying. Afterwards I had the electrician come out and install a transfer switch and an outlet so we set the generator out in the carport and plug it into the house panel directly. Sounded good on paper but after the electrician installed everything and we plugged in the generator, the breaker on the generator would immediately trip. electrician said it was faulty, so we took it back for warranty service. Service center said it was fine, took it home and still wouldn't work. Made several calls to Generac, who swore that it should be working for our application. To make a long story short, it turned out that OSHA now requires all "commercial" generators to have built in GFI on 220 side(which is what we were connecting into the service panel) and with the GFI, it won't let it feed into the house box. So after two trips to get generator serviced and three visits from the electrician, the final solution was to bypass the GFI breaker on the generator and now it works as intended. Generac was of no help at all, the representatives we talked to had no idea about the GFI situation. I'm not an electrician, so maybe I don't have the story exactly straight, but I know that it was a two month ordeal that ended up costing way more than I expected - those transfer switches are not cheap.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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