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Great video. I totally understand what you are saying. I am amazed, at those who do not. I appreciate Huntsville Utilities! If I want to be warmer or cooler, I fully understand I will have an increase in my usage/bill. It's a little bit up to me!

This is my dad’s job

anything other than line power is back-feeding. Interlock switches and the like are nothing more than idiot switches. It doesn't take more than a monkey brain to shut off your main. A piece of duct tape can do the exact same thing. I cannot believe how damn dumb people in this country have become.

Just used this today. Worked pretty good.

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

very amazing presentation for the bill kiosk.Big thumbs up

This was amazing, Todd and Amanda. Awesome Job.

This is Awesome. I shared it to my page to get the info out there.

Awesome job!

Cut your main breaker off and you don't have this problem the important thing is to make sure that the main breaker is off as long as the main breaker is off no power will backfeed into the power lines common sense not rocket science

I run 4 air conditioners on max, just for the tree hugers

Awesome Information. Thank you for sharing.

Thats why you turn the main off lol

Only if your dumb and dont know how to do it right lol

No excuse to do it wrong. The safety and lives of others are at risk. Pretend those fine people working on those lines are your family, and you want them to come home after their work day.

I can name every piece of material and tool on these trucks and I’m not a lineman. Yet.

We have been through multiple outages in the last 20 years here in West Ga. 2 years ago I invested in a larger 9500/12500 gen to run most of my house. With a friends help who is licensed electrician, we installed a dedicated backfeed breaker and interlock bracket to a 50 amp inlet on the side of the house. I also installed 2 amp meters inside at the breaker box to monitor the amp load on each of the 120 legs coming from the 50 amp outlet of the generator. I turn off most of the 240 breakers when running in emergency mode but can still run my AC when the weather is hot without overloading the gen with all my 120 breakers still on. I feel like we are set pretty well now. Trying to use non ethanol gas always, exercising the gen monthly for 30 minutes, and running out the gas completely from the carb with the fuel shutoff valve before storage back inside the garage. I also bought a gen tent to run the gen outside in bad wet weather to protect it from water damage. Great video!

looking to get a live feed for to integrate into my home automation, since the meters are now "smart meters" and transmit the usage back to HSV Utilities.

So I didn’t know that you could do this, so I’ll see why it’s really important to do this safely but I do something even different. What I do is I have a solar generator that is completely independent of all the wiring in my house so I charge my solar generator with another generator and then I run the stuff in my house off of that solar generator so of course it is impossible for it to backfeed into the electrical system in my house. So my solar generator will run 1500 W continuous with a 30,000 W peak so I can have a smaller gasoline generator to charge the solar generator so the solar generator will charge at 250 W continuous so as long as I don’t exceed that per hour, I would be good to go. so with that I can run my fridge freezer microwave toaster and washing machine but not everything at the same time and of course I can also run lamps so in a power outage I would be pretty good. I also have a potential of 1200 W of solar that I can use to charge up the battery’s during the day.

Thank you, as an existing customer. I will try again to set up a portal. I gave up years ago because of the difficulty in doing it. It sounds like it easier now. We currently use the drop box at S. Pkwy Krogers.

Excellent Training Abby. Thank you Todd and Amanda.

Thanks for the video!!! Car is faraday cage, and pure water is not conduct of electric it's the minerals in the water that conduct electric..... (This great video)

Great video!!! It is not hard to install a power inlet box & an interlock switch. This is needed for EVERYONE's Safety. There are too many people who don't know what they are doing, showing others how to be totally UNSAFE & setting up people for injury. Please plan ahead & get your home setup for a generator, before the crisis shows up.

Thanks for the helpful information!

Thank you for making these videos.

2022 not 2021

WHY does this graph on your website not look like the vertical image you have posted which linked me to this video?

This is expert advice. However, the reason your average "Joe Moron" back-feeds into the power grid is: A) He knows just enough to be able to hook his generator up, but is too stupid to be extremely aware of what he is doing at all times. B) The price of the transfer switch install. It would seem to me that in this day and age, your average house should already be equipped with one from the time it is built. Just like a 220 dryer outlet. I guess the argument would be that not everyone would use it, but I have a 110v propane dryer in my house, and have never used the 220 outlet. So, tit-for-tat on that one.

well that sucks

I got very awesome idea. I did my training for Survey Leak Detection.

Wow...

God Bless

What is the actual amount going to be for July per kWh? Right now (in June) it's sitting at $0.10560 and $0.11396.

Here is the link to the washing machine throwing contest video: ua-cam.com/video/HJIZjZRMS5Y/v-deo.html

Not everyone has $2000 to spend on a Box and hire an electrician.

Your #1 fan here with questions! Filters should be changed on a month-by-month basis regardless of how they look, right? Growing up, I was told "only change them if you can't see through them, but I'm starting to think this is not true. There is probably no right answer for this - but what is an "ideal" temperature to have your thermostat set at? We do 76° during the day and 72° at night. I'm kinda leaning towards "go whatever you are comfortable - both on paper and in the home"

They generally only hire minorities for the majority of office positions. The good old boys are put out on the line crew if you know what I mean

I looked it up and we dont have a 104 main street in our town so these safety issues dont concern us out here. Everyone, please look to see if you have a 104 main street, it could save a life..

Great video thanks for posting. My question is simple is the normal interlock plate that you can buy that prevents your generator circuit from back feeding good enough? What I don’t understand is the neutral from the pole is still connected even though the two 120 legs are not. Is there anyway for power to go up the neutral even though your main breaker’s off? I wish someone could explain that

.... linemen should always be grounding the lines out when they clamp or work on any area of the line. Even if they test and see no power, ground anyway before touching incase someone backfeeds and theyll short out of their gen. Once work is done, take ground off line and go to substation to reset........

Turn off main breaker liar

There is another alternative. For a temporary situation or a permanent solution, get a Generlink meter base adaptor. Would recommend the 40 amp unit. Safe, very easy to use, super easy (5 min.) for the electric company to install. I have no ties to the company. I bought one and it's a great solution. Using it with my Generac standby genset. Simply plug it in when needed, unplug when done.

Actually, I have had a licensed professional electrician wire up my 240 line dedicated only to my generator in case of power outs. It has a 50 amp breaker at my main breaker box in the basement and a 30 amp breaker at the sub panel breaker box in my detached garage. I ALWAYS turn off the main breaker in My basement before starting my garage generator and plugging in my 10/4 cable into the generator 240 receptical. Now that I see this video, I am angry my electrician didn’t install a safety throw switch like you show. I want it done right, safe and legal. I am grateful you published this great video. Another great reason to do a back feed legally and safe is for home owner insurance, if you end up burning your house down and the insurance investigator finds you have a illegal back feed connection, it is a PERFECT excuse for your insurance company to deny your claim in case of a house fire. Doing a back feed illegally is a wonderful gift to your insurance company! They won’t pay you a penny! .

Ugly’s guide to electricity. Now your qualified.🤙🏾

I personally prefer an interlock and have used it for years. I cannot have my main breaker on at the same time and vice versa. A plug is designated for my generator that I wired into my panel, of which the assigned breaker is connected to the interlock. Safe for the lineman.

Can't wait for Saturday's event! 🔌

I think a lot of people think turning the main breaker off and back feeding the generator through a dryer outlet or some other outlet or a breaker in the panel is ok as long as you turn off the main breaker and this is false. It is illegal to do this with out a lockout switch or lockout panel that locks out the possibility of having someone turn on the main by mistake or fail to turn it off. The word again is illegal and if there is a problem like your generator is running and you left the main on not only are you sending power out but if the power comes back on and your generator is running you will have a huge problem feeding your house from two different sources not on the same sine wave. I have heard of panels exploding from this. Oh and stop watching idiots giving free advice who are not licensed electricians.

What a great show! Funny, informative, with a touch of snark…Huntsville Utilities sounds like a great place to work!

Moral of the story: turn off your main breaker dummy. Do that and you'll be fine