![]() If a homeowner plugs a cheater cord into the house without flipping the main, they could energize the entire circuit on the isolated side of the switch. The typical switches on the poles do not ground the circuit. They then prioritize the isolated circuits depending on priorities and dispatch crews based on highest priorites. During an outage situation the utility triages the system and manually or remotely opens the switches up on the poles isolating circuits that are damaged so that the main circuits that can be re-energized. The problem is how does the linesman or someone else potentially exposed to the "dead" lines like a tree crew, home owners, volunteers heaping out and others know the main is turned off ?. Is that ok or ? The male/female wall plug/3 prong is basically a 240 V m/fem electric dryer plug. I've left the neutral tied in at the Generator plug but just snipped it off before going into the 3 prong wall plug. 4 prong coming out of generator ( 2 hot wires, 1 Ground & one neutral) 3 Prong in wall ( Two hots & 1 Ground) No Neutral} The Neutral is just bare copper wire. Like Putting a plug end on the other end of the cord & back feeding the power through the 3 prong plug in my garage I use for my 240V Welder. ![]() This takes a little time & I'm looking at a quicker solution. My generator has a 220V 4 prong plug & what I did in the past ( after shutting off Main) was run the appropriate size wire from the wired 4 prong plug at the generator to the electrical Panel, Remove the panel & screw in the 4 wires in the appropriate locations & Run it. Well I'm trying to make it easier/quicker to hook my generator into the house to get some power when we loose power From Consumers Power on occasion.
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