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After years of doing the back feeding thing we put in a transfer switch when we bought a Honda 7,000 120/240 inverter generator. I didn’t want to do the Generac etc permanent install because if we sell the house the generator goes with us.
I wanted an install that was electrically safer and something my wife was comfortable doing.
Recently we lost our power for 5 below-freezing days, it came back on and yesterday with the wild winds, one of our trees took all the power lines down.
The Honda runs our whole house; 220 well pump, 220 heat pump, 220 hybrid water heater etc. I did have to move some breakers around to balance the load so the generator wouldn’t alarm due to momentary overloads.
I went gas even though we have a 330 gal propane tank just because we can always get gas. Plus, being portable, gas power gives us the option to help others.
Our generator is installed in the garage with a proper exhaust pipe thimble as well as an exhaust fan with a powered air inlet damper. A CO monitor/alarm is plugged in.
It’s 14 degrees out now, my wife is watching her favorite show and life is good with over 100 hours in the past two weeks.
Welcome to “The Other” Maine.
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