Ok, we're moving a small 5kw gen and ATS for a lady who is moving. It used to be her mothers and she claims it ran the whole house.......haha. So we disconected it for her at her old house and moved to her new location. She had the A/C condenser, furnace blower, frig, and bathroom all on it...:roll: The husband said it never ran in the summer so the generator never experiencedthe A/C load. I told the customers that it is overloaded, and it wont caryy the load and that's that.
The customers wants it hooked up just the way I took it out.....I've tried putting my foot down and Im getting nowhere. So now the husband wants to be able to choose, if he wants the A/C, or the other loads mentioned in the case of loss of power, thus keeping it from overloading....I said "what are you going to do, if your not home?"
The previous electrician ran a 40amp 2 pole cir to the utility side of the ATS and the load panel had the breakers that I mentioned above, a 230, and three 120s. The A/C at the new location is only 2ton, but still we are overloaded....
Is it permissable by code to do this? It's protected and will kick a breaker. thus not hurting anything, but I think its crazy, and I dont want to do it.....I cant shut off or LOTO some breakers to unload it for the Home owners selection , as it has to be able to run everything on the utility side of the switch back through the load panel in normal operation.
Trying to make my customer happy, but loosing ground, I told them they need somewhere around a 14-15kw unit, but they want to use what they have obviously....
The customers wants it hooked up just the way I took it out.....I've tried putting my foot down and Im getting nowhere. So now the husband wants to be able to choose, if he wants the A/C, or the other loads mentioned in the case of loss of power, thus keeping it from overloading....I said "what are you going to do, if your not home?"
The previous electrician ran a 40amp 2 pole cir to the utility side of the ATS and the load panel had the breakers that I mentioned above, a 230, and three 120s. The A/C at the new location is only 2ton, but still we are overloaded....
Is it permissable by code to do this? It's protected and will kick a breaker. thus not hurting anything, but I think its crazy, and I dont want to do it.....I cant shut off or LOTO some breakers to unload it for the Home owners selection , as it has to be able to run everything on the utility side of the switch back through the load panel in normal operation.
Trying to make my customer happy, but loosing ground, I told them they need somewhere around a 14-15kw unit, but they want to use what they have obviously....