Connecting a backup generator.

[suemarkp]

Originally Posted by dznewz

FWIW, that Square D switch isn't UL rated as "Transfer Switch Equipment" (UL 100. It is UL rated as a "Enclosed and Dead-Front Switches" (UL 9.

Anyone care to comment on the difference? Significance?

The requirements for listing are buried in the NEC sections 701 and 702 and there is a table somewhere that gives the required UL listing number when a listing category is described. As I read these over and over, I was fairly confident that this is the situation (but you never know with the NEC):

If the transfer switch has integral overcurrent protection, then it must be listed as Transfer Switch Equipment (UL 100. I saw no other listing requirements, but I'd assume there is a listing requirement for switches somewhere, so that is where UL 98 comes from.

[jmetrisin]

Originally Posted by Roger

Joe dont know if you will come back to this thread but I think you should raise *#*# with the mayor of Jupiter for not commuicating the policy of generator use to the citizens. They had to know hundreds of people would be using generators after a darn hurricane....Roger

I'll see what I can do, but with all the chaos after the storm, I doubt this will register on their radar screen. Unfortuantely, it will probably take someone getting hurt for the local government to react.

Joe Metrisin

[daveisaok]

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[Ohm1]

I'm closing this thread (more than 3 years old).