This guide will explain the two different types of transfer switches so you can feel confident you re choosing the best switch to keep your essential appliances running during a power outage.
Generator solar panel switch.
The interlock kit is a less expensive alternative to transfer switches and generator sub panels.
We still had 5 more circuits to carefully choose.
Thankfully there s a solution a way to connect your generator to your panel without a transfer switch.
A generator transfer switch closes off the utility power line to your home s electrical system during a power outage and opens a line to a generator then reverses the process when grid power is restored.
Most of them can also monitor the voltage on the incoming so you only switch if its stable enough.
They had to be rooms of priority.
An electrician can easily mount the kit to your existing electrical panel.
By connecting that circuit to one of these switches it enables us to use solar power or generator power to run the lights in those three rooms at the flip of a switch.
On this design you will have a dpdt switch.