Re: Using my genny for power outage at home


"Bob Hatch" <bobhatch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Nate" <nsaptaemcpcrnonof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First...I misadvertised my generator. It is a 7000 watt, not a 7500
watt. But I undertsand your post and can easily redo the math myself.

OK, even better. It means that each output will be 29 amps, and all your
wire can be 10/2 with ground, if that is cheaper than 8/3 or 6/3, and it
most likely is. Either, or any will work. Problem is you need the neutral
to carry up to 58 amps, cuz the 120 volt is additive. If you use 10/3, and
if you load one side with 25 amps, then add 10 to the other side you will
exceed the capacity of the neutral wire.


Second...you'r tiny url did not lead to a specific item. Something
happened in the zip code translation. Can you tell me which transfer
switch you tried to point to and I'll find it on HD's website?

I just went to Home Depot, and typed transfer switch into the search
engine.

Thank you for the layman's term description of the hook-ups. And I
promise not to follow them as though they were advice. LOL

As long as you promise, hand over heart, I will add a bit of "this is how
I might do it. Two different methods.

1.
I would make a run of 2 lengths of 10/2 wire. At the end closest to the
RV, I would install a male, 30 amp, 4 connector dryer plug, and have some
way to store it, if it's in the weather. The reason I'd use a male plug at
this end is to avoid power being sent to bare plug blades, and that
wouldn't happen if the other end was connected to a transfer switch. To
one hot blade connection, one black wire. To the second hot blade
connection, one black wire. To the neutral blade connection, both white
wires. To the ground blade connection, both ground wires.

I would then make a cord, 6/3 with gnd wire to attach to the generator. On
the generator end, a 50 amp range plug. On the other end a 30 amp, four
plug dryer receptacle. Using this method avoids the plug to the transfer
switch being used for anything but what you build it for. If I sold the
house, I would take the plug off, or change it so it can't be used.

If I sell the house, the whole transfer switch and everything between it and
the RV goes with me. Likelihood is, the house is not going to be sold
though.

Nate


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