Re: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work

Posted by JD Seller on July 26, 2013 at 11:01:43 from (208.126.196.144):

In Reply to: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work? posted by JD Seller on July 26, 2013 at 08:35:02:

B&D and John Thanks for your replies. I pretty much under stand how they work now.

I have another question for you. Another person posted a link to a steel sliding breaker block that would make it where you could not have the mains and dedicated generator breaker on at the same time. Would one of these be good enough???

The house in question is on city water and has all gas heat, cooking, and water heater. So we would be just talking about needing lights, frig, and the furnace fan in winter.

I do have a plug and box that has a MALE 220 volt plug mounted in it. ( weatherproof box too) I have not seem one like it around. But I was thinking about wiring it as the supply for the generator. This could be hard wired into a box on the side of the house. Then you would just need a short cord between this and the generator.

With the interlock setup the male ends would never be "hot" Which is why I never have used this box before.

I kind of like the sliding interlock deal in that it would be cheaper but even better you could change what you powered just by flipping different breakers. This way a smaller generator could be used.

Example: You have maybe a 5000 watt generator. You run your light and frig. Then after you go to bed your freezer and the frig.

Just thinking you would have a lot of flex ability with this over the dedicated circuit deal.

We have looked at the automatic systems. They just switch a few circuits. So you are stuck with just those things being powered.

The farm has a automatic system on a stand by Generator that can run everything. It is great but not cheap.

Where we are thinking about this setup having it switch automatically is not needed. If they are not home they do not need the things to switch over by themselves right now. Maybe later but trying to keep the cost down for now.

Replies:

• Re: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work jgayman 13:10:09 07/26/13 (0)
• Re: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work jgayman 13:03:22 07/26/13 (0)
• Re: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work John T 12:03:34 07/26/13 (2)
  • Re: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work JD Seller 12:36:38 07/26/13 (1)
    • Re: BD, How does the transfer box with the few breakers work John T 15:13:31 07/26/13 (0)

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