SE Minnesota | Looking at new automatic standby generators for a livestock site. One big enough to run everything is well over $30K. I can get a 12KW Winco with auto transfer switch for under 6K. I would have to isolate the circuits I would want to function in an outage with a separate panel so as to not overload it.
I'm wondering if it is possible to put some sort of switch on the circuits that I would not want to energize after an outage so that after the power goes out and the generator starts, the extra circuits stay off until I turn them on. This way only the necessary circuits run during the outage on a smaller generator and I don't have the expense of adding a separate emergency panel and running wires from multiple barns to the second panel.
Edited by JZIMM 6/24/2014 09:31
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