#Generlink transfer switch install#
#Generlink transfer switch generator#

The purchase price includes either a L14-30 or 14-50 plug on a 20-foot/10 gauge Generlock™ power cord.

GenerLink model (MA24-S) is for generators up to 10,000 watts and includes whole-house surge protection.

GenerLink will be installed by an FKEC Technician, behind a member’s electric meter and requires no rewiring of the member’s electrical system.

#Generlink transfer switch generator#

Once installed, connecting your portable generator takes less than a minute with GenerLink.Once the generator standby switch disconnects your home from the electric grid, you can simply control which appliances you want to use by flipping the breakers in your existing electric panel. That prevents the possibility of dangerous power back-feeds which can potentially damage equipment and/or harm you and our utility personnel. When you connect and start your portable generator, GenerLink automatically disconnects your house from the electric utility grid.It’s designed and rated to connect directly to a standard household electric service, located behind the electric meter. GenerLink is a meter collar device which allows co-op members to safely and easily connect a portable generator to their home without risky do-it-yourself rewiring and hazardous extension cords.Some do this and setup a lmited number of circuits to be powered off the F-150 generator.GenSafe Program Copy FKEC offers GenerLink™, a Safe and Simple Way to Connect Your Portable Generator. Most setups only switch the two hot wires from line to generator, but a neutral switching box also switches the neutral from line to generator. This breaks the neutral-ground bond inside the house.

#Generlink transfer switch install#

Some do this and setup a limited number of circuits to be powered off the F-150 generator.Īlternatively you can install a neutral switching box in your house. That is not necessarily the best way to do it, so I'm awaiting Ford to make a serious technical response.Īlternatively you can install a neutral switching box in your house. Simplistically, it is as simple as disconnecting the ground cable from the neutral cable somewhere in the truck. If you can find a knowledgeable (licensed) electrician, he could make that conversion for you. The dealer has gone back to ask for a better answer. I have approached Ford via my sales & servicing dealer. OSHA requires the neutral-ground bond, not the NEC. The Powerboost generators are set up for contractor on site support. Interestingly that is how the 2.0 kW generator in a non-Powerboost F-150 is set up. The simplest fix is to convert the truck generator to a floating neutral (ie no neutral-ground bond). As I understand it those circulating currents can get large enough to be dangerous. The NEC requires only one neutral-ground bond because odd circulating currents can be setup if there is more than one neutral-ground bond. If you break the ground wire between the truck and the house it'll work fine. Interestingly, his generator does not detect this as a fault and continues functioning.įirst: the Powerboost electronics senses the neutral-ground bond inside your house as a 'gound.' Thus is shuts down the generator.

I suspect that youtuber answers my question at 22:50 where he temporarily 'bonds' his generator and measures current on the ground wire between generator and home panel. Is it checking for a 'ground - neutral continuity' in whatever is plugged in to the receptacle? This video made a surprising amount of sense to me but I still don't understand why having neutral and ground bounded in two places (the home's panel and the truck) is a problem when having them bonded in only one place (the home's panel) is not, nor do I understand how the truck detects that condition. I just had an electrician at my house to discuss setting up the powerboost as a whole house backup generator, and despite my mentioning other people have had problems with ground faults due to the 'bonded neutral' generator on the truck he was not dissuaded at all and was confident an interlock on the main panel would work. Can someone clearly write out why the powerboost generator won't work with a typical interlock switch in the main panel, in a way that a reasonably competent electrician (that hasn't spent hours reading this thread) would understand?