rholmes69
Bronze Member
Not sure when/who did the work. 30 year old home 2000sq ft, one 400sq ft addition plus attached 2 car garage and one detached 1 car garage. There is a main electrical panel on the outside of the house with breakers for the main home panel, addition panel and then the 1 car garage panel and then a couple other high amp draws (water tank, range, etc). The one car garage built in the mid 90's has a 220v outlet on the side of it that you wheel the 7k watts (12k surge) generator to and plug in. The plug runs to the electric panel in the garage and you would have to flip a 50 amp breaker. From there, I have no idea how power is distributed to the home. The neighbor says the prior owner would run the well pump, fridge, freezer and some lights when the power went off from the setup. I do not see a transfer switch/panel and have no idea on how to safely connect it and test it. I know from the limited amount of info I have read that hooking it up in an outage could send power back throught he lines and potentially kill a utility worker messing with the lines somewhere and power restored would fry the generator. Would I have to flip the breakers at the main panel on the house to off in order to "isolate" my home and then work backwards from the garage panel feeding power from it back to the main panel on the house where it is distributed to the house? I can take pics if need be.
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the help!