XPost: sci.electronics.repair, alt.home.repair   
   From: _arlen.george@halder.edu   
      
   On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:56:14 -0400, gfretwell@aol.com wrote:   
      
   > If you can live with a 30 or a 40, Grainger has them for $32. They   
   > might be able to order the 35 but you are out a few weeks I imagine.   
   > What do you have in the transfer equipment at the panel? If you have a   
   > 35 protecting it at the panel for overloads, a 40 will adequately   
   > protect the feeder for short circuit.   
      
   The generator has been running for 3 days now, where it quit sans warning   
   earlier today, where a check of the 12VDC car battery showed it was down to   
   6 volts, so, obviously, the charging circuit wasn't working (there's a lot   
   of corrosion on the battery terminals, but it starts up the generator just   
   fine when it's at 12VDC).   
      
   I know the battery was fully charged as PG&E had given us a day's notice,   
   so I had charged it for that day until the power went out 3 days ago.   
      
   The 8KWH generator has been burning propane at about 50 gallons a day (near   
   as I can tell from the gauge on the propane tank, which isn't all that easy   
   to read accurately), and where I used a jumper cable from a nearby vehicle   
   to debug that it was the battery and then, once debugged, I swapped in a   
   second car battery to keep the electricity going today (and put the dead   
   battery on a charger):   
      
      
   Looking inside each of the two transfer panels, one for each half of the   
   house, they seem to be listed as 100 Amp service each based on this wording   
   on the outside of the Generac part number   
      
      
      
   Where there are 4 fuses in each of those two panels, all of which are   
   supposed to be the "uniquely sized" 600 Volt 2 Amp Buss SBS-2 fast acting   
   fuses, where it currently has 4 and 5 amp Buss BBS-4 and Buss BBS-5 600   
   Volt fast acting fuses (which came with the transfer panel when I bought   
   it) but where the 2AMP SBS-2 fuses have a similar (but not as bad) sourcing   
   problem as does the circuit breaker.   
      
      
   This is, I think, OEM but based only on Ebay listings, which may be wrong:   
   o    
   This is original that the electrician originally put in the transfer panel:   
   o    
      
   The house is 200 Amp service, where my understanding is that each half of   
   the setup handles 100 Amps, but where I'm not sure why the original   
   electrician put in 4amp and 5amp fuses when online, I see pictures of all   
   sorts of sizes, but some of them are 2Amp fuses, so it's hard to tell   
   what's the correct fuse amperage.   
      
      
   I don't see anything else inside the transfer panel that is fused.   
      
      
      
   Although the generator has the 35-amp circuit breaker & a fuse:   
      
   Which is a typical 15-amp fuse shown in item #10 below:   
      
      
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