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This makes my head hurt..
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If you are feeding the transfer switch with a breaker out of your main panel and then it's going into a sub panel, you can get by with putting a 60 amp breaker in your main panel, and using #6 copper wire from the main to the transfer, and the transfer to the sub.Speddmon:
Assuming I go with a 200 amp transfer switch what size breaker in the main panel where transfer switch is hooked into. I will have to jockey some circuits into my subpanel to make room as the main panel is full. What size wire from breaker to transfer switch #4 (will be short distance 2-3")
You just keep putting out fires, the Sparkies will just have to deal with the headaches.This makes my head hurt..
Our favorite cheap Chinese stuff store has one: Harbor Freight! I looked at it the other day when I was in with a friend, seemed reasonably well built--did not notice if it had a UL sticker or not (I should have looked, but the Chinese will put fake UL stickers on their fake stuff...)What is a reasonable source of supply and cost for a manual 200a transfer switch.
And somehow I think I'm replying to almost identical threads on two forums!
pistonium,For what it may be worth, Square D makes a very inexpensive switch for their service panels that mounts in the upper breaker location of the panel and has a bracket the slides up into the location of the main breaker switch handle. This provides a code approved transfer switch right in your normal panel serving the normal breakers going to the house.
The way it works is this - you wire your genny into the 2 pole breaker in the upper right slot, and it stays disconnected from the busway in the panel unless you move the bracket which forces you to open the main breaker - then you can close the breaker to the genny. This makes connection of the genny to the grid impossible.
The great thing about this is you can select any of your normal loads to run on the genny! AND ITS CHEAP, SAFE and CODE LEGAL.
There are some interesting meter base transfer switches available on the market (some manual, some automatic, some attach between the existing meter and base, others provide a base) , these replace your normal meter base and provide a place to plug in a 50 amp RV style power cable, which might make better sense in your situation. In some areas utility companies are subsidizing these, it may be worth a phone call to ask your local electric company.
Ike
Around here (Houston) the utility company is replacing our meters with so-called "smart meters" and, far from subsidizing them, is charging us $3+ per month for them. This is probably the wave of the future for a lot of us so beware ... yoiur meter based transfer switch may have to be changed out sooner or later.There are some interesting meter base transfer switches available on the market (some manual, some automatic, some attach between the existing meter and base, others provide a base) , these replace your normal meter base and provide a place to plug in a 50 amp RV style power cable, which might make better sense in your situation. In some areas utility companies are subsidizing these, it may be worth a phone call to ask your local electric company.
Ike
Code doesn't have anything to do with it, the street side of the meter belongs to the utility, and they won't let you do it.I have to have an electrician do an install on the street side of the meter, if it is code permissible, where the underground cable runs to the house.
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