[SEL] O.T. Hooking a Generator to Meter Base - Help

[paulmaples at sbcglobal.net]

NO offense at all Jim and the advice is well taken. You have missed some of 
my original posts. This is a new home that my son and wife are building with 
no power to it whatsoever. We are waiting on the utility company to come out 
and run the underground service but they say it will be a couple of weeks as 
they have sent most of their crews to Florida. I am wiring the home, my son 
and his wife are doing all of the painting and the staining of the floors 
and we all need some power to work by, more than the two construction 
extension cords that is currently available. I also needed to check out all 
of my wiring circuits.

I now have the generator installed and all is working great. I will remove 
it just as soon as the utility company calls me and tells me they are coming 
to run the underground service.

Thanks James for the excellent advice, it is appreciated.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Yost" <jnyost at yahoo.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:43 AM
Subject: RE: [SEL] O.T. Hooking a Generator to Meter Base - Help


> SEL,
>
> I did not read the original question about hooking up
> a generator so I am assuming we are doing it without a
> double throw disconnect. I read one email to pull the
> meter. That will prevent from back feeding. Do it the