Plugging in generator to your house dangerous?

[ROUSTABOUT]

I mean I've hooked up Megawatt generators this way. Just have discipline. Rack out the breakers when needed. Hang grounds 600v and above. So on and so forth.

But the average home owner is lucky to be able to know not to run a generator in a garage with the door shut

The herd needs thinning.

 

[JohnDeereJoey]

If your main is off, you can't backfeed the power company. So if your main is off and you plug everything up before you start generator, no danger anywhere.

Call the power company and get their opinion.

 

[i7win7]

Used this for well, gen cord plugs into it and need to flip swith from line to gen.

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[Dale_Alan]

Used this for well, gen cord plugs into it and need to flip swith from line to gen.

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Pull the meter!!!!! Hook up generator. Start generator.

 

[JohnDeereJoey]

 

[groundcover]

Here you go !!

 

[kenmac]

The herd needs thinning.

It happens here every winter. Some idiot runs their generator in the home, or garage and kills everyone in the house from CO poisoning

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Call the power company and get their opinion.

Power company grounds each section out before they start to repair it. So if you aren't disconnected, generator is toast.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

It happens here every winter. Some idiot runs their generator in the home, or garage and kills everyone in the house from CO poisoning

It's poor around here. I've seen folks tear the back porch down and burn it in a wash tub in the living room.

 

[BnRidge]

So I have another thread about generators/inverters and looking at getting my place set up in case of emergency.

So that got me thinking that the plug configuration is backwards? I have watched some YouTube’s on hooking everything up and most people plug into the generator then go plug into the house.

Well, seeing that the 14l-30 plug “tangs’ or plug metal is exposed and hot with power from the generator, that seems pretty dangerous and I think the whole configuration is backwards. I would want my generator to have a male plug and my house to be a female plug? Then I could safely connect everything. But I am sure it won’t change but I am surprised there are not more accidents with people fumbling with hot 14l-30 plugs and getting 30 amp pumped into them or their dog when they accidentally drop the plug trying to lock it into the house plug in a storm…

But at least anyone using a generator should know to plug into your house then go plug into the generator second…but maybe there is something I don’t know about a 14l-30 plug. Certainly possible.

Our connection box outside the house. Male end of the cord to the generator, female to the house connection. No chance of crossing the generator with the utility.