Re: [asa] $4 gas is here to stay

The shutoff switch isolates your equipment from the grid. You can continue to run your generator and use the power. It just can't get outside your system. I have a very primitive way for taking care of this: I shut off the main breaker. You can also get a manual box which powers some of the circuits in your house. When you have power you plug the box into a special socket you install on your main breaker box. When the power goes down you unplug the manual box and plug your generator into it the socket the main box originally plugged into. And then of course you can get the automatic breaker that disconnects you from the mains when it senses a power outage. They are expensive and not recommended for Saturday mechanics to install. Then you can start your generator (or you can use an automatic starter that starts the generator when the power goes down.)

 
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----- Original Message ----
> From: j burg <hossradbourne@gmail.com>
> To: Kirk Bertsche <Bertsche@aol.com>
> Cc: Glenn Morton <glennmorton@entouch.net>; asa@calvin.edu
> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 2:55:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [asa] $4 gas is here to stay
>
> "And to top it all off. If you want to sell
> electricity back to the grid, it is the law that if the grid goes down, your
> equipment has to have automatic shut off switches. This means that when you
> really really need the power, you don't have it. Why is this? Well if your
> equipment continued to work when the rest of the grid was down, you could
> electrocute the workers fixing the problem."
>
> Interesting. I have a friend who lives at 8900 feet altitude in Rico,
> Colorado. He has such a system. He told me his electric bill for a
> typical year was under $100 (yes -- he heats with it and solar).
>
> I'll have to ask him about the shut off switch issue.
>
> jb
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Received on Mon Jun 9 22:42:33 2008