Madpoodle wrote:sbcc wrote:Madpoodle wrote:
Great idea, added it. Thanks
PLEASE NOTE: Pulling a meter is most likely illegal. It is. Living in South Florida I have helped friends connect their houses to portable generators, and have pulled dozens of them. But I can also tell you from dealing with FPL EVERY day, the lineman will go right past you if they see a generator running and no transfer switch. Pick your poison, so far every time I have pulled the meter the lineman have been appreciative, and I am not in jail..
That seems better to me. We have had 3 "storm of the century" multiple day outages in the past 4 years. Linemen have come from all over the state and surrounding regions to restore service. Around here, seems like they just knock on doors if they have a question about how the generator feeds the house. No one pulls meters, at least not that I'm aware of.
We had a couple linemen killed during Andrew due to bad generator hook ups. I didn't have shore power at the house till end of September, office until November. Fed and talked to a TON of linemen LOL.
In south florida after andrew i pulled my meter while using gen and was thanked by the Fpl worker for doing so.