Is your house pulling too much current for the generator. I had to
live off a 6k generator for about a year and you can't have many
things running at the same time. I really saw the efficiencies of
those CFL bulb vs traditional bulbs when I was on the generator.
My generator would buck and moan if I put too much of a load on it,
maybe yours just trips the gfci
Another idea is that if it is the GFCI tripping maybe it is the
polarity of your plug wiring.
On Sep 2, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Robert McElwee wrote:
Several times over the past few years I have killed my main breaker
(as well as all the other breakers), hooked up two extension cords
I made that have double male ends on them, and powered up both
sides of my breaker box with a 5K generator. This year hurricane
season is here so I pulled out my "new" generator (a used 6K
generator my father traded me for a 10K generator I bought for him)
and fired it up. It is running fine so I killed my main breaker and
all the other breakers and tried to back feed into the house
through the two electrical outlets I have always used. Here is what
I see:
1) As soon as I plug the generator into the house outlet the GFCI
on the generator trips.
2) Plugging two refrigerators into one of my extension cords
(without the double male patch) works fine.
3) Plugging the double male patch into my extension cord and back
feeding a power strip works fine (power from the generator coming
into one of the strip outlets - the male cord on the outlet just
laying on the ground).
Any ideas? It looks like to me that both my generator and extension
cords with double male ends are working fine. I've tried to plug
into a house outlet (all breakers still off) in several different
rooms and it trips the GFCI every time. I am confused since this is
something I have done many times before with another generator.
--
Robert McElwee and Blue Flash
"The 50 MPG Miata"
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