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Originally posted by skipdup
There's also some issue about hooking it up right. Something about a barrier/insulator to the lines feeding the house. Very serious... A "lineman" for the electric co. can be easily killed by a generator hooked up incorrectly, while he repairs the damage that caused the outage in the first place. I can't remember how/why... but seems like it has something to do with stepped up power when it goes backwards through the feeds... Or, something like that...

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That's why you need a properly wired transfer switch.
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