David what was the end result with the buyer.
Did she thank you later?
Same thing here.
Is there a isolation switch to prevent backfeeding to the utility when the generator is online? The linemen sure don’t appreciate voltage on their “dead” line. It needs to break all current carrying conductors including the “neutral”
There are “generator panels” with a built in safety “line transfer switch” and made specifically to be separate from the main panel. You move to this panel all the important circuits that you wish to power by generator when the uility lines are out
In normal times, this panel is fed from a main panel breaker through its own integral triple pole breaker which includes and switches the neutral also as the third conductor. In power outages, it’s fed through another integral triple pole breaker from the generator. **But **both triple pole breakers are linked in an either/or setup- if you’re feeding from the panel, the generator breakers are “off” and when you close the triple pole breakers to get power from from the generator , the breakers serving the feed from the main panel are now “off” so no current can flow from the generator out to the utility lines. Either one feed or the other is supplying the selected circuits in the generator panel.
Not too many years ago it was a knife switch
Now it is a few relays and some logic
In any case to do it right is not a big deal
Again as inspectors if we see it done wrong call it out and if a kid gets pulled away by his ear too bad
rlb