Posted: 10/10/2008 4:12:55 PM EDT
I didnt know if I should put this in the survival forum or not. I read the thread a week or two back about wiring a generator to a house. Well here is my story. Last winter we got hit with one hell of an ice storm. Most of the city was without power for a week and a half. We had just bought this house 2 or 3 months before the storm hit. The house we bought belonged to our inlaws for years and was a rental for about 20 years or so. The trees in the back yard were way over grown which is what took our power out. One of the limbs fell and took out a line. I didn't have a generator at the time and the wife and I went to home depot and bought one (Honda). We did try and tuff out the cold, that lasted about 2 days. Then I had to call the electrician to come out and hook it up for me, and so was alot of others which is why it took them forever to come and do it. Oh by the way the panel box outside of the house was older then dirt, the weather head was bent slighty and the wires coming out of the weather head looked horrible and it was anchored to the soffit. So I called and got me a couple of estimates to have a new panel, meter bracket, weather head out on(through my roof) and transfer switch/plug in(yes i may have used some incorrect terms here). Got it done today. It took one guy about 4 hrs to do it. Even came with instructions for us slow people to hook the generator up. By the way, this was way out of my league as far as doing it my self. Thought some of you do it yourselfs my want to see it.     |
