Posted on 01/11/2015 12:30:17 PM PST by rdl6989
..ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 AM EST MONDAY... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 1 PM EST MONDAY...
* TIMING...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE MIDDAY HOURS INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. MORE WIDESPREAD FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD CENTRAL INDIANA FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST AFTER 500 PM. FREEZING RAIN WILL END BY 700 AM MONDAY MORNING...CHANGING OVER TO SNOW. LIGHT SNOW ON TOP OF ANY ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL RESULT IN SLIPPERY CONDITIONS ON TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING.ICE ACCUMULATIONS...NEAR ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH.
(Excerpt) Read more at crh.noaa.gov ...
I see some tweets from south of Crawfordsville that it’s icing pretty heavy. Rain so far west side of Indy north of 74.
Most are.20a. You can split to 2 if your loads are fairly balanced to each side of your circuits
You can plug it into an outlet and it.will energize a house. Ice is tbe worst of all
That is a bad idea and because of split power in house ie: 220v input is slit into 2- 120v set of breakers - so will power only half of your circuits. ..and worst of all you must have a disconnect switch between your Breaker Box and the incoming Power line. The Main Circuit Breaker WILL not provide this function. This to prevent back feeding from your Generator to the Power Lines and endanger Power Line workers.
Yank the meter. That will take you off the grid. If you have an emergency you have to do what you have to do. The single top priorities are the heater and hot,water.
Correct, that’s the 2P part, 2-pole, which means both legs.
10Ga wire, 3 insulated plus ground. Black, red, white, bare.
5 kW is 2.5 kW / pole, which is ~20A at 120V. Circuits are only to be loaded to 80%, so 80% of 30A gives you 24A of actual circuit ampacity, from a continuous current carrying standpoint.
Yeah, 20A will probably work, but it isn’t what you want to do if you’re setting it up right.
Not quite.
If it's a 220V generator, it has to be plugged into a 220V outlet (electric dryer or electric stove, most likely).
I had to do a field-expedient splice of a generator last winter during an ice storm, and connected it via the service panel in my garage.
How does opening the main breaker not provide this function?
It isn’t code, but it does disconnect the house from the grid.
IANAE, but I don't believe that's true; when I had to run my house on a generator, I just tripped the main breaker and that seemed to do the job.
If it didn't work, I would have been running the whole neighborhood, and blown the breaker in my generator, as well as electrocuting the guys who repaired the lines.
Neither of those happened.
It’s called a Transfer Switch. I strongly recommend you look into installing one. If a power company worker is harmed because you back feed into the grid you can be charged criminally.
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That's what I thought, my neighbor had a special connector in his garage that was designated for his gas generator..........
He only needed it once before he died but at least he let me plug in my 100 ft. extension cord to power my sump pump when we had a few hour power outage......Just long enough to drain the sump till the power came back on
Another good reason not to live in Indiana. I in central Texas, few hundred miles south of you. We have had that weather for two weeks now.
Old saying down here, “There ain’t nothing between us and the North Pole but three strands of Barb wire and half of it is down”.
I’ve run an extension cord across the driveways so my neighbor could run his furnace in an extended outage. Two furnaces, my refrigerator, a few lights, the network stack, and a couple laptops, and life is pretty good!
It was predicted by Glowbull Warming “experts” back in about 2000 that there would be NO SNOW by now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Main Breaker does interrupt the circuit but does not provide the Air Gap to prevent Voltage Arcing across to potentially injure a Power Line worker. Trust me I am Professional Engineer.
Indiana has my sympathies. The ice storm in Maryland last February knocked my power out for 13 hours. Tree branches were coming down all over the place. I was one of the lucky ones.
No, it’s a mistake... Due to GW, there should not be ICE STORMS. /s
When I was around 12 yrs old, living in mid-Michigan (middle of the mitten), we had an ice storm on top of a one foot crusted snow layer. Many of my buddies and I discovered we could actually skate cross-country.
We spent the entire day skating to different farms, up and down hills....what a hoot. The only time we would break thru was if weeds or tall grass was above the snow, which cut down the thickness of the ice layer.....and oh yeah....no school.
Glorious day, but I think I slept for a week I was soooo tired.
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