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Old 07-31-2012, 08:38 PM   #19
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The way you are proposing to do it is illegal and dangerous. You need a switch that locks out to prevent back feeding to the grid. Feeding into a normal receptacle means your cable would be bass ackwards. If you are handy, Lowe's sells a transfer switch that is relatively easy to install and should be legal. There are many safe solutions to this, what you propose is not safe and you need to think down the line where perhaps someone who didn't understand the issues tried to use your system when you weren't around.
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