Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

Wed Aug 25 17:21:40 UTC 2021

----- On Aug 25, 2021, at 7:04 AM, Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa wrote:

Hello Mark,

> At the home, you typically have someone that is responsible for knowing
> what to do in case of an outage, and switching over to self-generation.
> If that person is not there, or has passed out from too many bottles of
> wine that evening, someone else might think it's just a matter of
> starting the generator, unwinding a suicide cord and plugging it into
> the wall - totally forgetting about the main breaker.

At my home, I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CONE4MG

The interlock kit is installed in such a way that either the main or 
the generator circuit breaker is closed. If the main is on, you can't
switch to generator power, and vice versa (see the pictures on the
listing, mine is installed the exact same way).

Thanks,

Sabri