Ankhseeker
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I am looking for the safest way with what I have to connect a 5k generac generator to my house so I can run my well pump during power outages. Granted, a transfer switch would be the safest and easiest, but where I live, the outages seem to come infrequently, but are there for hours and sometimes days. That said on to the questions.
The twist lock plug for the 120/240v 20A connection has 4 connections(poles). G,W,X, and Y. Can I presume that x,y are each one leg, W is Neutral and G is ground?
What is the configuration to connect this plug to a dryer plug? (3 wire). That leaves me with 1 extra wire from the generator. Maybe I should just add a 4 wire 220 dryer plug to supply the source to?
i know that I need to kill the main breaker and the breaker for the solar as well, along with most of the others in the service panel.
Advise gladly accepted.
The twist lock plug for the 120/240v 20A connection has 4 connections(poles). G,W,X, and Y. Can I presume that x,y are each one leg, W is Neutral and G is ground?
What is the configuration to connect this plug to a dryer plug? (3 wire). That leaves me with 1 extra wire from the generator. Maybe I should just add a 4 wire 220 dryer plug to supply the source to?
i know that I need to kill the main breaker and the breaker for the solar as well, along with most of the others in the service panel.
Advise gladly accepted.