Transfer Switches Make Your Portable or Permanent Electrical Generators Safe and Reliable for Your Home or Business
The power goes out, and you have a back-up mobile generator in your garage. You wheel it out to your driveway, but you dread running power cords from each of your appliances, through your garage, to the generator. Wouldn’t it be far better to insert a single plug a few feet from your generator that feeds right into your electrical panel? That will keep your appliances plugged into the wall, and electricity safely flowing through your home’s existing wiring.
You’ll need a “transfer switch”, which turns an unsafe set up – relying on multiple extension cords that still don’t reach all your needed appliances – and allows you to simply use one generator cord and optimize the number of appliances you can run off your generator. Reinhart Electric are the South King County pros at installing this special wiring and circuit!
Avoid the Danger of Backfeeding with a Transfer Switch
An improperly installed generator may not only be sending electricity to your appliances, but also back out through the electric service lines feeding your home normally. This “backfeeding” results in live wires down your street and elsewhere in the electrical system. This could result in serious injury or death to anyone coming into contact with these live electric lines.
A “transfer switch” and “interlock” prevents the current from your generator backfeeding to the electric company’s incoming wiring when your back-up generator is operating. A transfer switch, installed correctly and safely by the electrical technicians at Reinhart Electric, will break the connection to the electric company’s service when the generator is in use and, similarly, automatically disconnect the generator connection when normal power has been restored. This is critical to your safety and the safety of electric company linemen, who are working to repair the overhead lines and restore power in an emergency.
Reinhart Electric will install a manual transfer switch that conforms to National Electric Code. Connecting a generator to your home’s circuit breaker isn’t a DIY job! Contact the professionals at Reinhart Electric – we’re qualified and experienced to perform this critical task, making your life easier in a blackout, and keeping you and your home safe.
Get a free quote for electric generator and transfer switch installations from the experts at Reinhart Electric.