Please tell me you have a transfer switch installed. Backfeeding without one is a great way to kill linemen, and is illegal in many locales.
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]
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Yea that's called switching off the box on the street side in, before hooking the house up on generator. Done it, no issues. I want to power my house, not the neighborhood.
We get a hurricane down here, pretty sure the code enforcement won't be coming around checking to see who is legal, more along the lines we will be holding the perimeter to keep the looters out. 🙂
I didn't even think about it backfeeding the grid, then your neighbors can mooch off of your generator too! Better to throw the main, but then how do you know when the power comes back on?
When the streetlights come on? We have a transfer switch with 10 circuits on the house. Great investment. We have few things like the microwave and a few lights downstairs that aren't on the transfer switch. When they come on, we know the power is back on.
Throwing the main is not a guarantee (assuming people remember to do so before connecting the suicide cord) . NEC says transfer switch. If you have a newer panel set up for it, you can use an interlock, which is less expensive and guarantees only one source of power at a time.
A few hundred bucks is a lot less than the attorney's fees when your main breaker is defective and doesn't actually totally isolate the system
A few hundred bucks is a lot less than the attorney's fees when your main breaker is defective and doesn't actually totally isolate the system
Axisg's idea is interesting and local laws do allow for some home brew activity, wine and beer mostly but the last thing I need is Bylaw enforcement pounding on my door because some twink of a neighbor contracted as case of th *ss because the smell of fermentation.
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I was a fire fighter for 9 years, that is the first thing we hit on a house before we went in to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff.. pretty sure I'm confident in my method, thanks for the input tho.
My OCD I'd turn off every breaker on the street box just to be on the extra safe side. Redundancy. 🙂
Watching who around you who is not on generator and seeing when they have lights.
The trick is, play dumb and say oh man, I didn't know that started to go bad, thanks for letting me know so I can get a fresh pail because it spoiled. Ny sense of smell isn't that great officer. Maybe I've either got covid or have some long haul symptoms (at which point they back away.)
It's not like you're building a 5 foot copper kettle, easy to play ignorant.
Sucked at getting the new headlights in, they didn't play nice with my deformed grill.
Leaning toward hacking the grill with a Dremel since it doesn't fit right anyway.
It won't stretch wide enough to get around the housings. Turns out the new lights sit wider than the old by 1/8".
Onto happier things: bigger trans cooler.
49% increase in height, 40% increase in frontal area.
If you scroll back to the first pic you can see how the new cooler fills the grill up nicely. Ended up swapping fittings with the original cooler and trimming/reshaping the upper mount to fit the truck, but it bolted right into the lower mount and the lines snapped right in. Of all things, I snagged this from an early 90s TBI era 1500 Suburban. It was missing its grill and this cooler really caught my eye. 100% factory, I have no idea what boxes were checked, I've never seen a GMT400 trans cooler this big. Lucky me I hope! When we took the slide in camper into the mountains back in March, with temps around 30, with the converter locked forever, the laptop reported 180 degrees which seems like an ideal trans temp. The question that begs is what did I run last year dragging my trailer all over the Mojave Desert with the AC blasting and the engine fan coming and going at speed? Coolant never went past 200 and the converter stayed locked so it should have been sane, but I doubt it was a single tick below 200. We'll see soon enough, I ordered some bungs and I'll put one in the trans pan to monitor temps with an a pillar setup I bought a few months ago
Leaning toward hacking the grill with a Dremel since it doesn't fit right anyway.
It won't stretch wide enough to get around the housings. Turns out the new lights sit wider than the old by 1/8".
Onto happier things: bigger trans cooler.
49% increase in height, 40% increase in frontal area.
If you scroll back to the first pic you can see how the new cooler fills the grill up nicely. Ended up swapping fittings with the original cooler and trimming/reshaping the upper mount to fit the truck, but it bolted right into the lower mount and the lines snapped right in. Of all things, I snagged this from an early 90s TBI era 1500 Suburban. It was missing its grill and this cooler really caught my eye. 100% factory, I have no idea what boxes were checked, I've never seen a GMT400 trans cooler this big. Lucky me I hope! When we took the slide in camper into the mountains back in March, with temps around 30, with the converter locked forever, the laptop reported 180 degrees which seems like an ideal trans temp. The question that begs is what did I run last year dragging my trailer all over the Mojave Desert with the AC blasting and the engine fan coming and going at speed? Coolant never went past 200 and the converter stayed locked so it should have been sane, but I doubt it was a single tick below 200. We'll see soon enough, I ordered some bungs and I'll put one in the trans pan to monitor temps with an a pillar setup I bought a few months ago
Hhmm.... I'll have to do some digging & see what was optionally available for the larger size trans-cooler brick. I wouldn't mind mine have some extra wiggle room.
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