Not being cheap. For the OP it would require running a new line (100') plus adding a transfer switch. Involves cost plus quite a bit of work. May not be a good option.
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Not being cheap. For the OP it would require running a new line (100') plus adding a transfer switch. Involves cost plus quite a bit of work. May not be a good option.
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Good old E-Bay! The place to buy those thousand dollar military toilet seats for five bucks! It's where I got my 200 amp ASCO transfer switch. Never thought to look up Kirk switches.
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Seems like the lockout would be the best for this situations but again, how do you know the power is back on? 
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So the horn and light are tied directly to the line coming into the main breaker? Would that mean there is no breaker on it just the manual switch?
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I can't give you the details. Safety issues have been addressed, although some still wouldn't like it. Having said that, there are inductive style (non connected) sensors available today. I guess, I should tie the thing into my ASCO aux switch contacts.
This was done many years ago, when I did have a PTO set and simply threw the main switch, opened the splitter and clipped on some big booster style clamps. Not something I would suggest to anyone.
Having worked back in the 80s as an apprentice electrician, working very often on live circuits, maybe I didn't think my hook-up arrangement was anything scary.
This was done many years ago, when I did have a PTO set and simply threw the main switch, opened the splitter and clipped on some big booster style clamps. Not something I would suggest to anyone.
Having worked back in the 80s as an apprentice electrician, working very often on live circuits, maybe I didn't think my hook-up arrangement was anything scary.
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Seems like the lockout would be the best for this situations but again, how do you know the power is back on?
When the neighbors come over and says "Hey, the power's been back on for 4 hours!!!"
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Ha ha, that's kinda what I was thinking earlier. Not too bad if you have close neighbors, but some people here have lots of woods around their homes. Personally I like my 6 button transfer switch. It does what I need, my 4kw inverter generator sips fuel and I know when the power is back on. I would love to go to solar with battery back-up but that would take money I don't have at the moment. Maybe in the future.
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If it were me, I'd do this:
We have our meter, a disconnect box (which is the main disconnect), then our first panel (which, by code, is a sub-panel). From that first panel, I feed our garage with a 50amp breaker.
I'd pull the main disconnect and wire an LED to one or both of the legs in that first panel just above the main breaker for that panel. Then I'd run the wire for the LED up to our kitchen and put it in a box by the counter (the main brain central station of our house).
Then I'd install the key in that first panel and its counterpart in the garage panel.
Then I'd turn it all back on.
So, if power goes out, the LED is out.
I pull the key, disconnect the first panel, walk out to the garage, install the key, turn it, and turn on the generator equipment.
When power comes back on, the LED will light up.
I'd go back out to the garage and reverse the process.
Someday, I may do that. :thumbsup:
We have our meter, a disconnect box (which is the main disconnect), then our first panel (which, by code, is a sub-panel). From that first panel, I feed our garage with a 50amp breaker.
I'd pull the main disconnect and wire an LED to one or both of the legs in that first panel just above the main breaker for that panel. Then I'd run the wire for the LED up to our kitchen and put it in a box by the counter (the main brain central station of our house).
Then I'd install the key in that first panel and its counterpart in the garage panel.
Then I'd turn it all back on.
So, if power goes out, the LED is out.
I pull the key, disconnect the first panel, walk out to the garage, install the key, turn it, and turn on the generator equipment.
When power comes back on, the LED will light up.
I'd go back out to the garage and reverse the process.
Someday, I may do that. :thumbsup: