So a while ago I'm just minding my business looking at cat videos on youtube and I stumble across a Will Prowse video. 4 months later I have this in my basement!!! - Thanks for your inspiration Will. I watched your videos and said - Hey I can do that!. After a lot of watching and reading I came up with a design to suit my use case. Moving from Design to reality resulted in a LOT of trips to Lowes and Home Depot. I think my wife suspects I'm having an affair with the Checkout girl at Lowes.
One design element I struggled with was my desire to feed the Transfer switch with both Solar and a gas generator (not at the same time) and how to wire that. What I'm doing is using double pole switched where I'm disconnecting the Hots for each respective Power source. the Neutrals are all still wired together. To be more clear I have one 10 Ga 3 wire run (2 hots Neutral and Ground) as seen on the left side of the schematic. All power sources are sharing the same wires however the hots are switched on or off prior to connecting to the Run going to the Transfer switch. The neutrals however are all connected throughout (not switched) so any feedback would be appreciated on the implications of that. Also feedback on any other safety issue or gaps I have would be much appreciated
One design element I struggled with was my desire to feed the Transfer switch with both Solar and a gas generator (not at the same time) and how to wire that. What I'm doing is using double pole switched where I'm disconnecting the Hots for each respective Power source. the Neutrals are all still wired together. To be more clear I have one 10 Ga 3 wire run (2 hots Neutral and Ground) as seen on the left side of the schematic. All power sources are sharing the same wires however the hots are switched on or off prior to connecting to the Run going to the Transfer switch. The neutrals however are all connected throughout (not switched) so any feedback would be appreciated on the implications of that. Also feedback on any other safety issue or gaps I have would be much appreciated
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