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Originally Posted by Dubyagee
Whole house transfer or select circuits? I have a 10k rig and was going for a whole house manual transferred setup.
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The mains power is 200A that runs from the meter into a panel that sends 100A to the garage sub panel, 100A to the house sub panel, 50A to the oven and 30A to the dryer.
The house sub panel feed runs through the generator transfer switch so the generator will run everything in the house - lights, outlets, well pump, HVAC, etc... Even the little 5K unit I was running before would handle these loads fairly well.
I wanted to upgrade because I got a screamin' deal on the whole setup. The new technology generator/transfer switch will exercise itself weekly, warm up and switchover automatically and even waits for a set amount of time before shutting down in case the power comes on temporarily and then goes away again.
It also has load management and will control the HVAC based on the load at any given time.
To make sure each leg of the 220v is loaded properly, I did a seat-of-the-pants load analysis. Once everything's installed, I'll measure it with test equipment and make sure everything's OK.
And yes, it's plumbed into the propane tank. It's 300 gallons and with an average consumption of 1.68 gal/hr at an average 50% load, it would probably run for a week or so.