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by hedora 1370 days ago
Maybe? What if it's a slow-blow fuse / breaker, and the phase is just a little bit off?
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If it was alternator driven generator it would most likely drift into phase with the network, as the network would either break, or allow it to spin faster depending on in which direction the difference is.

That's actually how the big generators are synced, if there is less load you will see frequency of network increase slightly until the amount of generation drops, similarly in other way.

Inverter based one, hard to tell, entirely depending on code driving it.

But taking into consideration even 20V over low resistance wire could be 20+ amps it would probably trip pretty quickly.