Are you ready for a Power Outage?

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I am going to assume that he was told to turn off his main breaker before he plugs the gen set it.. otherwise the power coming back on could fry his new gen set, and he would be feeding the neighborhood with power, well not really but at least the lines to the pole would be energized and until it hit a transformer.

Steve

Thanks Steve! You are correct. I was told to turn off the main breaker to protect my gen. I did not go with the option for auto-shutoff, too expensive for flipping a switch. If the gen was auto-start, then I would have spent the extra dough, but that was a few thousand more! Have not had to use it yet (fingers crossed), but the security of having it there is priceless!
Cheers,
Phil

[Chin_Lee]

I have that generator from Costco but I have no gas LOL. I'll need to go out to buy gas if power goes out hahahaha