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Originally Posted by gslpro
Geez, there are a lot of opinionated people on this subject. NOBOZO, all you had to do is if your furnace doesn't work using that plug, you need to find an outlet that isn't powered up, and plug into that one to hit that side of the circuit. When you look at your circuit breaker panel. Row one would be side 1 of the line. Row two would be side 2. Row three would be side 1. Row four side 2. on and on. Each row(or side) is 110v. Your 220 breakers take up two rows. 110+110=220v. If you kill the main breaker, no chance of back feeding. My simple fix was that I had one outlet right next to the box. I wired in another next to that, on the next row or breakers. Now, I turn off the main breaker, and I turn off my 220v breakers. I then start my generator, plug the two outlets into the two outputs from the generator, and viola, I am in business throughout the whole house. My furnace runs fine, and my fridge, and deep freezer are on, and I can watch TV as well. When the fridge or furnace kicks on, it revs up the honda, but has no problem in keeping it all going.
The Honda 3000 is ultra quiet, and gives you an additional 1000 watts of power over the 2000. I wouldn't mind picking one up. The fuel usage is also a huge difference between the hondas and the big-framed units. I use 1-2 gallons to get 16 hours, vs. most generators that I have seen run 7-8 gallons for the same time. Figure that out for a long-duration event.
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So you made yourself up two "WidowMaker Cables"...if the first one doesn't get you the second one will.
However if you must do it that way then I suggest that you turn all the breakers off before starting your generator.
Then after you start your generator turn on the 120v breakers one at a time that you want to use.
That way you don't over load your generator if one of the circuits take an initial high surge.