[aprssig] Physics and generators

[Bradley Haney]

what about those switches they sell at Lowes and Menards that you wire in to
your house where you   have 1 side of the switch  for genset and  then the
middle  is off and then the other side is for comerical.. That is no more
than a Breaker..

Why wouldn't the main breaker  work as s disconnect point.? The grounds are
still common wheather you use a double poll double throw or not?

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:39 PM, John Gorkos <jgorkos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:54:55 Perry Chamberlain wrote:
> > By going through the utilities and osha sites there are hundreds of
> > examples of linemen being injured or killed by people back feeding a
> power
> > line with a home generator. I'm not sure what branch of physics makes
> this
> > impossible, but when you back feed several thousand watts into a pole
> > transformer, the high voltage( thousands of volts) comes out tof the high
> > side. The reason you havent heard of anyone getting hurt, is it is a
> > <snip>
> > Buy and install a ul rated transfer switch, and have it  installed
> > properly.
> >
> > KE6ANM
> >
>
> This, this, and this again.  I just spent the morning meeting with the VP
> of
> operations at the local Electric Co-op, and this exact conversation came
> up.
> Linemen are injured and equipment damaged and destroyed after nearly EVERY
> large (>100 serviced endpoints down) outage because of people doing
> irresponsible things on the grid.  Often, the responsible party never knows
> how close they came to killing someone, or the dollar value of the equpment
> they scorched.
> Circuit breakers are not designed to protect the upstream equipment or
> providers, and should never be used to do so.  Buy a real transfer switch
> and
> use it.  If you elect to use a suicide cable, or some other jury-rigged
> system
> to power your house when the electric company grid fails, perhaps we need
> to
> propose a new APRS symbol to Bob for "Doofus at this location" that you can
> use to mark your home QTH.  That way, the linemen know which house to just
> leave disconnected when they restore power.
>
> John Gorkos
> AB0OO
>
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