purplewg
New User
- Location
- Bunnell, Florida
- Occupation
- Rancher
Ok bear with me here I am a newbie. lol So, I am in a hurricane prone area (FL). I recently purchased a new diesel powered generator as I live in the boonies and have diesel storage tanks for my farm equipment.
I had my house built with a pad around back for water pumps and stuff and for a future generator. I had the electrician place an outside panel box for generator input to my panel box inside my home. I have an outside main disconnect with feeds the in house breaker panel located on the other end of the house..
Now, this where I show my stupidity. My thought was to put an ATS beside this main disconnect panel outside the house. The ATS would just to autostart my generator(autostart feature installed). Once the generator is started it would send power into my breaker panel box inside the home(dedicated breaker for the gen). The ATS should have turned off the incoming power from my power company. My panel box will then be powered by the generator. Once power is restored by power company the ATS will turn off my generator and switch back to the main power.
Should this work or am I just missing some real issue by doing this?
I know probably the best way to do this is to run the generator output to the ATS but it would be a long haul with expensive wire (buried) when I already have wire feeding my inside panel box. It would require I pour a pad and move the generator near my outside disconnect to easily make that type of connection.
Thanks, Tom
I had my house built with a pad around back for water pumps and stuff and for a future generator. I had the electrician place an outside panel box for generator input to my panel box inside my home. I have an outside main disconnect with feeds the in house breaker panel located on the other end of the house..
Now, this where I show my stupidity. My thought was to put an ATS beside this main disconnect panel outside the house. The ATS would just to autostart my generator(autostart feature installed). Once the generator is started it would send power into my breaker panel box inside the home(dedicated breaker for the gen). The ATS should have turned off the incoming power from my power company. My panel box will then be powered by the generator. Once power is restored by power company the ATS will turn off my generator and switch back to the main power.
Should this work or am I just missing some real issue by doing this?
I know probably the best way to do this is to run the generator output to the ATS but it would be a long haul with expensive wire (buried) when I already have wire feeding my inside panel box. It would require I pour a pad and move the generator near my outside disconnect to easily make that type of connection.
Thanks, Tom
