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Wiring a honda eu2000i generator to a 4-pin transfer switch plug?
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| I read somewhere that someone wired two regular 3-pin household male
plugs to the cable that plugs (on the other end) into the house
transfer switch. Anyone got any pics or tips on the wiring?
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| Anthony Matonak 2005-10-28, 3:21 am |
| dean wrote:
> I read somewhere that someone wired two regular 3-pin household male
> plugs to the cable that plugs (on the other end) into the house
> transfer switch. Anyone got any pics or tips on the wiring?
Google for "suicide wiring generator". A proper transfer switch does
not use wiring like this, nor is it recommended that you try. Of
course, people do this anyhow just like they operate their kerosene
heaters indoors, wedge pennies into fuse-boxes and test car batteries
by shorting them with a screwdriver.
Anthony
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| Ok I'll take a look. Suicide because the plugs are both live if you
pull one out?
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| Vaughn 2005-10-29, 9:21 pm |
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"Anthony Matonak" <anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:za-dnWGNU7j1XfzeRVn-hw@comcast.com...
> dean wrote:
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> Google for "suicide wiring generator". A proper transfer switch does
> not use wiring like this,
Are you talking about connecting a 120 volt generator to both sides of a 220
circuit using a transfer switch (such as an EmerGen) that has a twist-lock
generator plug mounted on it? If so, that is far from a "suicide cable". It
has limitations, but IMHO is a perfectly safe thing to do. I have been doing it
for several years and through three hurricanes. My eu2000 is perfectly happy
with that setup.
Vaughn
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| Yes, exactly. I assume I take one regular household 120V plug and
essentially split the live wire into two terminals on the 4-pin socket
(I am making this adapter so I don't have to butcher my nice generator
cable, one day I might buy a bigger generator, who knows).
May I ask where you got your cable from?
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