<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Patrick Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:winston@winston1.net">winston@winston1.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Think of the physics here.. They will explain why you have not.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>VERY careful linemen, and good procedures, but you shouldn't deliberately do anything that might endanger them.<br>Unlike a gas generator, your solar/battery array is probably silent, and may not get noticed.<br>
<br>In THEORY, pulling the main breaker would seem safe, but you don't bet peoples lives on "probably ok". You might be feeding just a short section of line from your house up to a transformer, and down the street, with no other loads, so it's not safe to assume that you couldn't make those lines lethally hot.<br>
<br>Some of us may be qualified electricians in this domain, but most of us aren't, and we shouldn't go making assumptions that could hurt someone.<br><br><br></div></div>