MikePA
Super Moderator
John, good point. It's a 30 amp breaker. Our dryer outlet is the only 220v outlet we have in the house as the stove is gas. I got a chance to use the cord this afternoon. Almost made it through the whole day with only a few momentary outages, until 3:50 this afternoon when power went out. Since the window candles came back on, my wife thought line power had been restored and she began turning things on as if it was business as usual, even though the generator was running on the front porch.
Given all the ice we got, I was expecting a long night of no power and trying to sleep with the generator running. However, power was only out for a little over 30 minutes. I also learned, almost the hard way, that before you turn the main breaker back on you not only need to unplug the cord from the generator, but also the dryer outlet. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif Nasty things could have happened if I had touched the open prongs.
Given all the ice we got, I was expecting a long night of no power and trying to sleep with the generator running. However, power was only out for a little over 30 minutes. I also learned, almost the hard way, that before you turn the main breaker back on you not only need to unplug the cord from the generator, but also the dryer outlet. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif Nasty things could have happened if I had touched the open prongs.