Generator

[hayseed]

Is it legal to backfeed your house with a generator?

[cablefreejunkie]

if you mean run your house electrics from a generator no,but if its a noisy polluting one you might get complaints,unless youre in the middle of nowhere :)

[neilsignum]

Is it legal to backfeed your house with a generator?

Totally illegal for good reasons!!
Most people who do this (illegally) use a 13Amp plugtop on each end of a extension lead so a standard plug goes into the generator (like anything would) but the other end is also a plug that is plugged into an ordinary socket - seems like a great idea until you touch the very live sticky out pins - probably why they are called 'widowmakers'.
Also if the power is off in your house and you connect generator to house (safely somehow - not a widowmaker!) then the poor guy from Manweb in a wet ditch WILL die when your house current lights him up like a Xmas tree, because he knows the power is off, and no-one is stupid enough to back feed a house as it might kill someone other than the householder...

[cablefreejunkie]

Totally illegal for good reasons!!
Most people who do this (illegally) use a 13Amp plugtop on each end of a extension lead ..

backfeeding is not a good idea as the above method is illegal,but if you plug into the genny and have a socket outlet on the other end then no problem

[Grizz]

you have to install a transfer switch to isolate the genny from the mains and prevent workers being fried


Transfer switch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_switch)

[cablefreejunkie]

you have to install a transfer switch to isolate the genny from the mains and prevent workers being fried


Transfer switch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_switch)

true,i think im getting confused
im simply referring to using a genny for power and not actually hooking it up to a consumer unit (backfeeding)

[Meat-Head]

rumor says if you have a MASSIVE MASSIVE monster genny, if you ever start it, 'BY LAW'? you are required to call the electric co and upload to the grid!

Unless this is a left over law from WWII??

[Catrepairgod]

make sure to open your main, so you dont backfeed the grid

[benr247]

make sure to open your main, so you dont backfeed the grid
why pv systems feed into the grid in a similar fashion