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Portable usually means 7K-10K or similar and you don't have ATS with those. Those are the type a home owner would roll in/out of their garage. What size generator are you talking about?
 
Usually this interlock setup works best for a portable generator. I have a 100 amp manual transfer switch here and it doesn't have any OCPD in it. It's more or less a big DPDT switch in a big enclosure

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Portable usually means 7K-10K or similar and you don't have ATS with those. Those are the type a home owner would roll in/out of their garage. What size generator are you talking about?
I have seen Generac makes a manual transfer switch for homes with an inlet box on youtube
 
Usually this interlock setup works best for a portable generator. I have a 100 amp manual transfer switch here and it doesn't have any OCPD in it. It's more or less a big DPDT switch in a big enclosure

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Whats a DPDT switch , I know when using a interlock kit the ocpd is in the panel but I have seen on YouTube some homes have a small transfer switch was wondering if the gen has the ocpd or dose the switch have it
 
Whats a DPDT switch , I know when using a interlock kit the ocpd is in the panel but I have seen on YouTube some homes have a small transfer switch was wondering if the gen has the ocpd or dose the switch have it
The generator will have a small breaker to protect it from overload. The transfer switches will have OCPD for each circuit. An ATS, if service rated, will have a main breaker.
 
Most times with a portable generator you have to load shed. You kill the breakers for the less critical loads. Like range, dryer, central air, whatever you can live without.

They sell switches like this also. You connect all your critical loads to it. It makes things a little more foolproof. You can really do the same thing with a small subpanel.

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Regarding portable generator do they all come with a built in ocpd or is that built in to the transfer switch ?
Most (all?) the portable generators I have seen have had a built in OCPD, and transfer switches generally do not have OCP on the generator input.
 
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