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Posted: 2/5/2022 4:00:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 6:32:16 PM EDT
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I will just order the non oem copy.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 7:01:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I will just order the non oem copy. That's what I would probably do. As much as I always prefer OEM - the ratings on this copy look like its worth it.... and save $20 off OEM. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 7:16:54 PM EDT
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Order placed.
I will get the breaker and romex from Home Depot. 15’ of 10ga 3 wire. Right? |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 7:17:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I meant between the OEM and the one he linked to. I have a Square D Homeline panel. Sorry, misunderstood your question. Glad you got one ordered. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 7:19:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Order placed. I will get the breaker and romex from Home Depot. 15’ of 10ga 3 wire. Right? Yes on the gauge. I used 10-2 romex but it came with a ground wire, so technically it was three wires. I also was doing a 3 prong inlet so it worked perfectly. If you're doing a 4 prong outlet, believe you'll need 10-3 romex with a ground, so total of 4 wires. @FALARAK, keep me honest. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 7:23:49 PM EDT
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You need 10/3 romex.
That's 3 insulated conductors and a ground. I dont know how many feet you need..... it just depends on where you are mounting your inlet. If you only need a few feet you can buy it by the foot and save some money. However, most places are sold out of many sizes of romex that I have looked.... good luck! |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:38:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You need 10/3 romex. That's 3 insulated conductors and a ground. I dont know how many feet you need..... it just depends on where you are mounting your inlet. If you only need a few feet you can buy it by the foot and save some money. However, most places are sold out of many sizes of romex that I have looked.... good luck! Thanks. I will check tomorrow for romex. My order from Amazon will be here Wednesday. |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 11:41:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryDamn, who installed that? Is it even straight? |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:21:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn, who installed that? Is it even straight? Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn, who installed that? Is it even straight? I may be holding my phone crooked. An electrician installed that for me years ago. My old panel was really small. He installed this over the old panel. |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 6:41:23 PM EDT
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After reading some of the questions on this post may I recommend some of you hire a qualified electrician for this hookup. I would hate to read about one of you getting fried or burning down your house. I have wired several houses and my shop but once I get inside the breaker box, all SquareD, I call in the experts.
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Posted: 2/10/2022 3:39:08 PM EDT
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@Falarak did you use s standard breaker or an arc fault breaker?
I was just going to buy a standard breaker. |
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Posted: 2/10/2022 4:24:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @Falarak did you use s standard breaker or an arc fault breaker? I was just going to buy a standard breaker. Standard. Just like my links show. The part number I used is in the link. |
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Posted: 2/10/2022 5:05:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Standard. Just like my links show. The part number I used is in the link. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: @Falarak did you use s standard breaker or an arc fault breaker? I was just going to buy a standard breaker. Standard. Just like my links show. The part number I used is in the link. I have a homeline panel. Your link is for a QO breaker. |
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Posted: 2/10/2022 5:18:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have a homeline panel. Your link is for a QO breaker. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: @Falarak did you use s standard breaker or an arc fault breaker? I was just going to buy a standard breaker. Standard. Just like my links show. The part number I used is in the link. I have a homeline panel. Your link is for a QO breaker. DOH! Yeah you are right. :-) |
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Posted: 2/10/2022 6:07:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: DOH! Yeah you are right. :-) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: @Falarak did you use s standard breaker or an arc fault breaker? I was just going to buy a standard breaker. Standard. Just like my links show. The part number I used is in the link. I have a homeline panel. Your link is for a QO breaker. DOH! Yeah you are right. :-) No problem. I knew to buy a Homeline. I just didn’t know if I needed an arc fault or just s standard. I bought s standard. Thanks for the help. |
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Posted: 2/16/2022 8:44:32 PM EDT
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Did @pepperbelly die or what
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Posted: 2/16/2022 9:22:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did @pepperbelly die or what Not dead yet. I have honestly been hoping romex price would drop. A 15’ length is $65 at HD. I have a hole made to pass the extension cord through into my garage and a cover. I have everything but the romex. It is getting to the time of year it might come in really handy too. I should finish it by this weekend. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 10:14:00 AM EDT
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Any update?
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Posted: 3/14/2022 12:19:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Any update? No. We got distracted by some other stuff going on. Our friend hasn’t had time to look for the wire I need. It sounds like he is so busy he hasn’t been in the shop for a while. I will get it wired in before the spring storm season hits. |
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Posted: 4/4/2022 7:08:41 PM EDT
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What’s the latest @pepperbelly?
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Posted: 4/5/2022 12:38:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What’s the latest @pepperbelly? I got the wire. I just need to get it wired from the breaker box to the outlet. Had a few too many distraction but I should finish later this week. |
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Posted: 4/5/2022 10:11:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When using a 120V generator and a special bridging cable for the two hots, you supply 120V to EACH side of the panel, but not out of phase. Therefore - nothing that uses 240V will work. However, ANYTHING that uses 120V works fine. You can control which circuits get power simply by flipping the breakers. Feeding the manual transfer switch breaker from the L14-30 inlet box from the generator I know all of the 240V circuit breakers have to stay off, but what about 120V circuit breakers that are dual lug? |
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Posted: 4/6/2022 12:22:38 AM EDT
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Someone is going to die of old age before this gets installed.
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Posted: 4/6/2022 8:39:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Feeding the manual transfer switch breaker from the L14-30 inlet box from the generator I know all of the 240V circuit breakers have to stay off, but what about 120V circuit breakers that are dual lug? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: When using a 120V generator and a special bridging cable for the two hots, you supply 120V to EACH side of the panel, but not out of phase. Therefore - nothing that uses 240V will work. However, ANYTHING that uses 120V works fine. You can control which circuits get power simply by flipping the breakers. Feeding the manual transfer switch breaker from the L14-30 inlet box from the generator I know all of the 240V circuit breakers have to stay off, but what about 120V circuit breakers that are dual lug? I'm not familiar with what you are talking about. Example? |
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Posted: 4/6/2022 7:48:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Someone is going to die of old age before this gets installed.  Every time I mess with my generator or a storm comes in, I remember this thread and bump for an update. |
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Posted: 4/7/2022 10:33:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Someone is going to die of old age before this gets installed. Yeah yeah yeah. I’ll get it done. You don’t need to nag me every 3 months. ?? |
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Posted: 4/7/2022 10:44:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/7/2022 2:48:31 PM EDT
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I have 5 portable generators in my garage right now and the electrician tried in our 80KW generator last November.
NOT ONE FRIGGIN POWER OUTAGE SINCE. NOT EVEN A BLINK. I need to break out the two oldest portables and put them up for sale. Then armagedon was bust loose. I decided to sell my old truck too. Still fully insured. The hail storms seem to be dodging my area when I leave it outside. |
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Posted: 4/7/2022 4:55:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have 5 portable generators in my garage right now and the electrician tried in our 80KW generator last November. NOT ONE FRIGGIN POWER OUTAGE SINCE. NOT EVEN A BLINK. I need to break out the two oldest portables and put them up for sale. Then armagedon was bust loose. I decided to sell my old truck too. Still fully insured. The hail storms seem to be dodging my area when I leave it outside. Holy shit, are you me? Kept full coverage on my 05 waiting for the next hail storm. Blew the rear diff first... had to get a new truck. Had my generator wired to the house since march 2021. Not a blink. |
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Posted: 4/7/2022 5:36:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy shit, are you me? Kept full coverage on my 05 waiting for the next hail storm. Blew the rear diff first... had to get a new truck. Had my generator wired to the house since march 2021. Not a blink. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I have 5 portable generators in my garage right now and the electrician tried in our 80KW generator last November. NOT ONE FRIGGIN POWER OUTAGE SINCE. NOT EVEN A BLINK. I need to break out the two oldest portables and put them up for sale. Then armagedon was bust loose. I decided to sell my old truck too. Still fully insured. The hail storms seem to be dodging my area when I leave it outside. Holy shit, are you me? Kept full coverage on my 05 waiting for the next hail storm. Blew the rear diff first... had to get a new truck. Had my generator wired to the house since march 2021. Not a blink. This seems to be the way. Mine would go out on a breezy day (not like today in N TX) or if a squirrel takes a leak on the wire. Then I got a generator and it's been used maybe twice in the last 8 or so years. Jester |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 4:40:32 PM EDT
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It finally happened this morning and it worked perfectly. I was driving to the doctor's office and got a notification through Ring that power went out. A minute later I got a notification that power was back on. I didn't think much about it. I was picking up a few things for work after and got a call at 11 that the generator was still running.
So I drive over and check it out. We're on 3 phase and the generator is running and is still switched over as the supply. City power is disconnected. 2 - 120v legs and running 125v at the main. The Delta leg (230v) is running 135v. So the transfer switch knew the delta leg was bad and kicked the whole thing out. Oncor said it would be a few hours before they could get it restored. We had plenty of diesel and we were only pulling 33KW on an 80KW unit, so we just let it run and we left to go back to our main facility. About 2:30 we got a call from Oncor saying power had been restored and if we had issues to contact our electrician. We called the other facility to check on their status. Sure enough, transfer switch switched the load and the generator had just shut down. Awesome. Just fucking awesome. |
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Posted: 5/23/2022 11:57:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/24/2022 11:05:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah yeah. I have been putting it off. I did replace my water heater. ?? |
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Posted: 7/4/2022 11:01:50 AM EDT
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Bump since my quarterly generator check reminder went off and I’m trying to hold @pepperbelly accountable
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Posted: 7/4/2022 2:26:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bump since my quarterly generator check reminder went off and I’m trying to hold @pepperbelly accountable Lol. I still haven’t installed the breaker. Ever since it warmed up this has been on the back burner. I did rebuild my washing machine. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:16:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol. I still haven’t installed the breaker. Ever since it warmed up this has been on the back burner. I did rebuild my washing machine. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Bump since my quarterly generator check reminder went off and I’m trying to hold @pepperbelly accountable Lol. I still haven’t installed the breaker. Ever since it warmed up this has been on the back burner. I did rebuild my washing machine. So you wait until there is a power outage, then work on it, right ?!?! |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:59:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So you wait until there is a power outage, then work on it, right ?!?! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bump since my quarterly generator check reminder went off and I’m trying to hold @pepperbelly accountable Lol. I still haven’t installed the breaker. Ever since it warmed up this has been on the back burner. I did rebuild my washing machine. So you wait until there is a power outage, then work on it, right ?!?! Well, that is a pretty big clue. ?? I just went yhrough a pretty bad med scare. Things should settle down now, maybe I will remember that that chore is waiting for me. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 9:47:01 AM EDT
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I have a dual fuel generator and will only run it on propane. recent power failure for 11 hours, ran the generator for about half of the time. Ran the refrigerator, TV, computer, light, router. All I really need since it was overnight. Have a portable AC unit I can move from living room to bedroom. I did a bit of rewiring to run the furnace part of the central AC in winter. Generator is a Champion 3500W Inverter Dual Fuel. On this outage only used a couple pounds of propane from a 15 pound bottle.
Also had the propane company run a line from my house propane tank for longer outages. This works for me as a single guy with a dog and cat. Now, the question. I have one 15 pound and two 20 pound bottles. How do you recommend it be stored? Right now one 20 is full, one empty, 15 pound half full. the ones with propane are under the grill under an overhang sorta carport off the garage that is open on two ends and mostly open on the third. There are other things around the grill but still pretty good ventilation. Truck only fits up to the windshield. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 10:15:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have a dual fuel generator and will only run it on propane. recent power failure for 11 hours, ran the generator for about half of the time. Ran the refrigerator, TV, computer, light, router. All I really need since it was overnight. Have a portable AC unit I can move from living room to bedroom. I did a bit of rewiring to run the furnace part of the central AC in winter. Generator is a Champion 3500W Inverter Dual Fuel. On this outage only used a couple pounds of propane from a 15 pound bottle. Also had the propane company run a line from my house propane tank for longer outages. This works for me as a single guy with a dog and cat. Now, the question. I have one 15 pound and two 20 pound bottles. How do you recommend it be stored? Right now one 20 is full, one empty, 15 pound half full. the ones with propane are under the grill under an overhang sorta carport off the garage that is open on two ends and mostly open on the third. There are other things around the grill but still pretty good ventilation. Truck only fits up to the windshield. I only store propane outside - never in a garage. Under a carport is just fine. I have a plastic rubbermaid shed outside on the side of the house that stores my mower, 20 gallons of ethanol free gas, and 6 20lb propane grill tanks. |
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