On 8/30/21 22:13, Lamar Owen wrote:
I have some friends who work for the local electric cooperative, and all of them have backfeed stories. Around here, which is very rural, it's not at all uncommon to have a single house isolated on a distribution spur; nor is it at all uncommon for some people to have the 'suicide dryer cord' 'ATS' in use. One story I heard was that one individual had been a repeat offender, and several line workers had gotten bit (none were injured, thankfully) by his 4KVA generator; so after the repair of one outage, a line worker taught the individual a lesson by hitting the recloser without letting the individual know ahead of time (they had been letting the individual know that power was coming back on) and watching the individual's generator, out in his yard, explode from the out-of-sync condition.
As General Taylor in "Delta Force 2" used to lament, "Sh**! Always the hard way :-)". https://youtu.be/pJIGy4zHo6E?t=124 Mark.