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Hi All,
I have a few questions and would like your opinion and advice on please, recently housed local to us have had a power outage for 30hrs, and this got me thinking (dangerous I know) about using a generator to feed essencial circuits.
The house supply is TN-C-S
Crabtree Starbreaker split load CU
What I was thinking is to install a Gewiss GW66004 switched socket oulet fed from a 10A RCBO on the non RCD side of the CU, (The genny is only 2.2kVa)
The genny would be plugged in using a modified plug at the genny end (neutral & earth joined)
Also I would install an earth electrode using 16mm to the CU earth bar
Operation would be:
1 Isolation and locking off of the main incoming supply at the CU when utility power is lost
2 Isolate MCBs except lighting and sockets (loads disconnected except FCU feeding heating)
3 RCBO to genny socket on and backfeed into board
Whats your thoughts, is it feasable.
Cheers
I have a few questions and would like your opinion and advice on please, recently housed local to us have had a power outage for 30hrs, and this got me thinking (dangerous I know) about using a generator to feed essencial circuits.
The house supply is TN-C-S
Crabtree Starbreaker split load CU
What I was thinking is to install a Gewiss GW66004 switched socket oulet fed from a 10A RCBO on the non RCD side of the CU, (The genny is only 2.2kVa)
The genny would be plugged in using a modified plug at the genny end (neutral & earth joined)
Also I would install an earth electrode using 16mm to the CU earth bar
Operation would be:
1 Isolation and locking off of the main incoming supply at the CU when utility power is lost
2 Isolate MCBs except lighting and sockets (loads disconnected except FCU feeding heating)
3 RCBO to genny socket on and backfeed into board
Whats your thoughts, is it feasable.
Cheers
