3-Point Hitch PTO Generator arrived today

[grsthegreat]

here we go again..this subject has been beaten to death. im an electrician and i hook up generators. i saw a unit last year that was fed thru the welder circuit in garage. the old guy was doing the same thing for many years, but this time he forgot to shut off the main breaker. the power came back on and blew up the panel and the generator is toast.

i gave him a bid on replacing main panel, but never heard back from him.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

The real thing to do is look at you hook-ups and make decisions on what needs to be done to make switching and connections safe and implement them long before emergency is at hand, rushing to get power restored during emergency so sweet heart can microwave your pizza dinner can result in really serious AW SH!# situation...

Dale

Kind of like reviewing one's way of eating before the major heart attack instead after a near death experience perhaps.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

here we go again..this subject has been beaten to death. im an electrician and i hook up generators. i saw a unit last year that was fed thru the welder circuit in garage. the old guy was doing the same thing for many years, but this time he forgot to shut off the main breaker. the power came back on and blew up the panel and the generator is toast.

i gave him a bid on replacing main panel, but never heard back from him.

Time changes all things including our minds. This is an example where a hack came back to bite.

 

[GC1710]

buickanddeere....are you always so negative...you conjured up what I did and made a story out of it...true liberal for sure...words like "egotistical" "advocated" "illegal" this thread was about a PTO generator on a sub-compact tractor....and you turned it into egotistical people advocating for back-feeding through welder circuits and it all being "illegal" **** I'm probably a racist now too.....meanwhile I never once did any of this...FAKE NEWS


...I knew I shouldn't of replied to Irvings question....I have my own disconnect/interlock from main power that does what it needs to do and I don't want it shared because yes it isn't "professional" so I don't want to share home-brew ideas to genpop..... The only disgusting thing I read were the posts about "professionals"....there are some great tradesmen out there, great plumbers, electricians, welders, fitters, etc......but the fact of the matter is the majority that you hire, since we're all cheap, are horrible....I have fixed so many "professional" jobs at friends and family homes it's sickening...Geothermal installs by an HVAC tech that had only done gas...that was the best....however more scary are general contractors not hiring real electricians to do wiring....or auto-body shops doing frame welding with what looks like someones first ever welding job..........The question I have is do you feed ground to home or just run neutral and hots and run a ground rod from gennie to earth? I chose to run neutral and hots and then grounded gennie to a 4' rod driven in the ground.....this latter part may deserve some further discussion on an electrical forum...(bonding vs grounding)

I do everything myself:my open loop geothermal, boiler heated radiant heat in basement/garage, dual hot water tank setup using a combination of waste heat from geothermal in summer and a heat pump AO Smith main tank (which becomes the pre heat tank in the winter), laying drainage tile, installing a home security system, roofing....haven't poured my own concrete yet...but thats on my list...9 times out of 10 if you read some books, do some research and ask for some advice you'll do a better job then hiring it out...if you are handy. Luckily my father was a general home builder and when you're 4 years old on the job site you pick-up stuff pretty early...

Between my Dad, the Marine Corps Electronic school, mechanical engineering at Purdue, and some cool trade classes in high-school I've become well rounded, I post on here because I love having a tractor and wish I was a farmer...I love sharing what I've done with such a little tractor.....now I'm going off the wall because an innocent thread just became a debacle...

 

[WranglerX]

Plugged it in, using 6awg, let’s just leave it at that.

Well... Instead of using the vague inference you did something sort of sneaky and unsafe, you could have said "I have proper transfer type switch in place".... ITs your words that sparked this series of comments....

Dale

 

[LouNY]

Between my Dad, the Marine Corps Electronic school, mechanical engineering at Purdue, and some cool trade classes in high-school I've become well rounded, I post on here because I love having a tractor and wish I was a farmer...I love sharing what I've done with such a little tractor.....now I'm going off the wall because an innocent thread just became a debacle...

Morning GC1710;
Where did you have your Electronic School, NAS Millington?
That was where mine was back in70 and 71.

 

[GC1710]

Morning GC1710;
Where did you have your Electronic School, NAS Millington?
That was where mine was back in70 and 71.

Twenty Nine Palms, CA

 

[LouNY]

Twenty Nine Palms, CA

One of my daughters went there, when I was in El Toro was fixed wing and 29 Palms was rotary only.
Have a good day.

 

[buickanddeere]

buickanddeere....are you always so negative...you conjured up what I did and made a story out of it...true liberal for sure...words like "egotistical" "advocated" "illegal" this thread was about a PTO generator on a sub-compact tractor....and you turned it into egotistical people advocating for back-feeding through welder circuits and it all being "illegal" **** I'm probably a racist now too.....meanwhile I never once did any of this...FAKE NEWS


...I knew I shouldn't of replied to Irvings question....I have my own disconnect/interlock from main power that does what it needs to do and I don't want it shared because yes it isn't "professional" so I don't want to share home-brew ideas to genpop..... The only disgusting thing I read were the posts about "professionals"....there are some great tradesmen out there, great plumbers, electricians, welders, fitters, etc......but the fact of the matter is the majority that you hire, since we're all cheap, are horrible....I have fixed so many "professional" jobs at friends and family homes it's sickening...Geothermal installs by an HVAC tech that had only done gas...that was the best....however more scary are general contractors not hiring real electricians to do wiring....or auto-body shops doing frame welding with what looks like someones first ever welding job..........The question I have is do you feed ground to home or just run neutral and hots and run a ground rod from gennie to earth? I chose to run neutral and hots and then grounded gennie to a 4' rod driven in the ground.....this latter part may deserve some further discussion on an electrical forum...(bonding vs grounding)

I do everything myself:my open loop geothermal, boiler heated radiant heat in basement/garage, dual hot water tank setup using a combination of waste heat from geothermal in summer and a heat pump AO Smith main tank (which becomes the pre heat tank in the winter), laying drainage tile, installing a home security system, roofing....haven't poured my own concrete yet...but thats on my list...9 times out of 10 if you read some books, do some research and ask for some advice you'll do a better job then hiring it out...if you are handy. Luckily my father was a general home builder and when you're 4 years old on the job site you pick-up stuff pretty early...

Between my Dad, the Marine Corps Electronic school, mechanical engineering at Purdue, and some cool trade classes in high-school I've become well rounded, I post on here because I love having a tractor and wish I was a farmer...I love sharing what I've done with such a little tractor.....now I'm going off the wall because an innocent thread just became a debacle...

Where do you find hats big enough for your head ?

 

[cdaigle430]

No matter if your a DIY or an electrical engineer-always respect electricity. The moment you font it will bite you in the ars. If its not safe-dont do it-its not worth it.
I have just enough experience with it to be dangerous.