Posted on 02/23/2021 9:04:42 AM PST by Kaslin
While true, this is a remote possibility.
Popped circuit breakers or smoke and sparks are much more likely.
Unless the downed line is on your property; you’ll be trying to power all your neighbor’s homes with your puny generator. I doubt it’ll do it and really bog down, making a mighty scary noise!
Any ‘worker’ who fails to check for backfeeding before repairing a downed line would have probably been Darwined sooner or later anyway.
Bingo
Backfeeding with the main breaker on/closed is highly dangerous.
Dad may have exaggerated a bit.
The highest point in Syracuse is 440 feet above sea level.
That's about my typical trip to the station for fuel for all the yard equipment I have.
I don't know.
This is getting tiring.
I may just move to the city so I won't have to worry about stuff like this any more.
While to look at it from a distance; I’m on flat land, but it does slope 10’ from one corner to the next.
And while I am at the highest point around; I can still get a foot of water in the yard after a heavy rain.
I heat with propane and one winter the pressure regulator froze; stopping my supply.
A heat lamp would have brought it back to life, said my propane supplier, as he replaced the older one anyway.
At -44 degrees F or lower, propane stays as a liquid, there is little vapor and propane appliances won’t function properly.
Therefore, for appliances to work correctly, a propane tank must usually be kept in an area with a temperature greater than -44 degrees F.
I had it sitting on the back stoop with extension cords running to the refrigerators, freezer, water pump and sump pump.
It was summer, no heat needed, but had LOTS of water!
Everything worked fine.
Until about 3 months later when I came home from vacation and found water in the basement.
(Didja read what I typed upthread about remembering to plug in the sump pump?)
It was then that I opted to backfeed.
“Is there a special external dedicated outlet you would recommend for an electrician to install for a generator?”
Yes. It’s similar to a shore power inlet on a boat.
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“ Unless the downed line is on your property; you’ll be trying to power all your neighbor’s homes with your puny generator.”
It’s called a transfer switch and it isolates the home from the grid.
“ Any ‘worker’ who fails to check for backfeeding before repairing a downed line would have probably been Darwined sooner or later anyway.”
Tell that to the Judge. See where it gets you.
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I ain’t gonna test it FOR you!
At least we can’t put a coin behind a blown fuse anymore!
Well; I’ve got 30 amp breakers on my generator and 200 amp ones in my main panel...
Were any of them electricians, restoring power?
Point was how high _above_ Syracuse we were. Whatever it took to flood there, would be hundreds more feet to affect us up on the surrounding substantial hills.
As for Dad exaggerating, you’re not suggesting MY father would ever exaggerate, are you?
Oh, most definitely propane will stop working if it's too cold. But if it's not that cold yet and the natural gas goes out, it's good for a backup.
We got very lucky in that cold snap years ago. Our power and gas stayed on. Some weren't.
And this new TX debacle may actually get people to realize government can't be counted on in a crisis.
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