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Southeast Iowa | When we rewired our farmhouse eight years ago, I collected all of our "critical loads" into a separate panel. There are about eight circuits, and THAT PANEL is fed by a 50A, 240V, 4-pole cord like a kitchen stove uses. THAT CORD plugs into a receptacle that is fed from a 50A, 240V breaker in my main panel. When a power outage occurs, I unplug that cord and plug it into a red-painted 50A, 4-pole receptacle that is attached to a red-painted 60A, fusible disconnect which has a 40' of #8, 4-leg cable rolled up and hanging below it. We pull that cable through the cat door and up the stairs from the basement to the garage, and out through a second cat door to the back steps where we spot the gen set. Once everything is plugged in and the gen set is running, I throw the red-painted fusible disconnect and we are in business. We leave our regular service breakers in the "on" position so we will know right away that the normal power is back on. Oh... and one more thing..... BE SURE to use one of those computer power protectors on the feed to the furnace. These modern furnaces with the complicated circuit boards are sensitive to generator power. Buy the best one that you can find; they are thirty bucks and a new computer card is about two-hundred. | |
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How do you hook your generator to your house?
