XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: nospam@null.void   
      
   On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:20 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:22:12 -0600, John Fields   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:53:51 -0500, "Jon"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>The electric service goes to the house, but I want to run the generator   
   >>>in the barn.  So far I know,   
   >>>   
   >>>* there are 3 unused #10 wires buried between the house and the barn. *   
   >>>the electric to the barn comes from the house in 2 buried #000 cables.   
   >>>   
   >>>Some of the parts I have to work with are   
   >>>   
   >>>* a 3pst relay with a 120vac coil and contacts rated for 90amps * the   
   >>>above coil also activates 4 N.O. and 4 N.C. contacts rated for 15amps *   
   >>>two 3pdt relays with a 120vac coil and contacts rated for 30amps at   
   >>>300vac * a spst mercury relay with a 240vac coil and contacts rated for   
   >>>60amps   
   >>>   
   >>>Here are the rules:   
   >>>   
   >>>When the MAIN switch is ON, all generator wires must be disconnected.   
   >>>When the MAIN is OFF, it is safe to connect all generator wires.   
   >>>   
   >>>I take it that many of you were irritated with me over my last post.  I   
   >>>don't know how you got it I lived in Virginia, but whatever.  This past   
   >>>weekend I spent fixing up a computer and building a network in my home.   
   >>> I guess it's nice I accidentally firewalled out my address, but since   
   >>>I did I don't have to deal with backstabbers like some of you.  See if   
   >>>I care if you find out where I live, but I'm not volunteering the   
   >>>information.   
   >>   
   >>---   
   >>Rather a juvenile outburst, but hardly a surprise. ---   
   >>   
   >>>If any of you have any smarts you'll solve the puzzle and come up with   
   >>>a circuit that works and is up to code.   
   >>   
   >>---   
   >>Since it's _you_ who can't solve the puzzle, I suggest that the   
   >>statement about who has smarts and who doesn't is misdirected.   
   >>   
   >>Also, I think the decision to not help you is a wise one since you've   
   >>got an attitude and you seem to think that not allowing your precious   
   >>generator to be damaged should be the circuit's primary function.   
   >>   
   >>JF   
   >   
   > If someone has a trace on the guy, report him to his local power   
   > company.   
   >   
   > Otherwise he's liable to kill someone.   
   >   
   > Or tell me and I'll do the deed... I have no problem being the "rat" :-)   
   >   
   > I do vaguely remember he's in Virginia somewhere?  If so I can send one   
   > of my redneck relatives to "educate" him.   
      
   I think the utility company can and will do a suitable job of educating;   
   in cases I have heard of where illegal generator hookups were found the   
   utility disconnected the service with notification that they would   
   reconnect only upon receiving a copy of the inspection report from a   
   licensed electrical inspector.  How many utility companies can there be   
   in Virginia?  I'll bet that any of them would get the warrant to get his   
   address from his ISP if provided with a copy of his message asserting his   
   intentions of making an illegal generator hookup.  Then the correct   
   utility would have no trouble getting a warrant to inspect his premises.   
      
   If I were him I would be prepared to show them the inspection report for   
   the legal installation when they show up.  Probably he needs to hire an   
   electrician to do that; he obviously has not read the NEC.   
      
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