| I made one from spare parts I had laying around in 2012 after a derecho knocked out power to my house for eight days. I used it to connect a generator to the circuit that my refrigerator, my daughter's CPAP, a fan, and some lights were connected to. They were selling generators off a back of a truck as fast as they could be brought into the state. I managed to snag a generator but extension cords and power strips were sold out in a 500 mile radius. I flipped the main breaker and turned off everything else except the outdoor circuit and the one in the kitchen the refrigerator was on. That way I could run the generator outside, on my deck, connected to the outdoor circuit and power the kitchen circuit. The kitchen circuit has two outlets so my only long extension cord went from the second outlet to my daughter's bedroom to power her CPAP and phones, two table lamps, and a reciprocating fan were powered off the other plug of that outlet. "But you'll backfeed the grid" No, I won't. "But you'll wire it wrong" No, I won't. "But you'll shock yourself" No, I won't. If you think that's dangerous wait until you see the Tesla coil I built 20 years ago, or the 1kW amateur radio amplifier I built when I was 17 based off of plans I found in a magazine from the 60s. |