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For some it isn't I agree. -Also I advice do not plug in in an outlet via male to male. Reason: if your peak is over 5kw/h, the wiring might not handle that! S

For some it isn't I agree. -Also I advice do not plug in in an outlet via male to male. Reason: if your peak is over 5kw/h, the wiring might not handle that! See the 48kw/h wiring of yours is the calculation of the total amount each breaker can have. I don't know US breakers but lets say it is 120v/40A per breaker, you have 10 breakers. But if you connect your generator on the outlet on one breaker the electricity has to travel through one specific pair of wires all the time (from outlet to wire intersection spread from there)

mindslight 14y ago
FWIW, the common receptacle in the US is rated at 15A, on a 15A or 20A breaker. You'd just end up limiting your max power to the capacity of that one circuit, and overloading would trip the breaker on the circuit you were using to backfeed. Technically if you were putting 20A into a 15A receptacle on a 20A circuit you'd be overloading it, but the same thing can happen when drawing power and such circuits are still condoned. Also technically you should only consider that circuit sufficient if you aren't planning on having a continuous load greater than 12/16A, but people generally don't pay attention to that rating either.
- Freestyler_3 14y ago
  if your energy supplier is behind the breaker then the breaker only trips if you use all your power on other breakers. but if you use some devices on the breaker of the supplying device then that is not taken into the calculation. I forgot to state clearly that you would be limited to the maximum of that one breaker, which is inconvenient if your usage is above it sometimes.
  - mindslight 14y ago
    Doh, didn't think of that. Just goes to show how easy it is to miss something when doing things in a non-standard way, even when just tired. And emergency situations are even worse for oversights. (Although the generators I've seen where one would be temped to use a male to male 5-15 plug have a 20A breaker on those receptacles)

mindslight 14y ago

FWIW, the common receptacle in the US is rated at 15A, on a 15A or 20A breaker. You'd just end up limiting your max power to the capacity of that one circuit, and overloading would trip the breaker on the circuit you were using to backfeed. Technically if you were putting 20A into a 15A receptacle on a 20A circuit you'd be overloading it, but the same thing can happen when drawing power and such circuits are still condoned. Also technically you should only consider that circuit sufficient if you aren't planning on having a continuous load greater than 12/16A, but people generally don't pay attention to that rating either.

Freestyler_3 14y ago
if your energy supplier is behind the breaker then the breaker only trips if you use all your power on other breakers. but if you use some devices on the breaker of the supplying device then that is not taken into the calculation. I forgot to state clearly that you would be limited to the maximum of that one breaker, which is inconvenient if your usage is above it sometimes.
- mindslight 14y ago
  Doh, didn't think of that. Just goes to show how easy it is to miss something when doing things in a non-standard way, even when just tired. And emergency situations are even worse for oversights. (Although the generators I've seen where one would be temped to use a male to male 5-15 plug have a 20A breaker on those receptacles)