Thanks for the informative and prompt response
Have no fears, I have no intention of "leaving it to Beaver", there's a sparky in a nearby town that does this type of work and I'll be asking him to do the work. I just wanted an understanding of the rules and requirements. Have no fear, I've actually seen the results of a genset incorrectly synced and it wasn't pretty. That was back in the days of syncing the lights, throwing the couple switch (and praying). Lots of smoke and threw the genset off its bed. Very educational as a young trainee.
Interesting re the MEN link. I checked on the genset circuitry to ensure that it actually had one as I'm not terribly trusting of cheap Chinese consumer products. What was interesting is that (to my circuit reading) that it is shown on the incorrect terminal. This may be just poor circuit drawing and I was going to check this physically before replacing one of the 15A outlets with a 32A outlet (as you suggested).
Don't know if I'm too keen on having a portable genset with no MEN link, sort of OK if it's hard wired but IMO hardly 'optimal' for a mobile unit especially with additional 15A outlets. Maybe some sort of CO switch incorporating the MEN link and 'hard wired'
OR portable outlets ? A bit messy though and difficult to make 'fool proof'. Perhaps it's best just to hard wire the whole thing as I don't really need portability
but I can't really see the generator hire companys removing the MEN link on their units, so there must (hopefully) be another answer.
Regarding the solar, does it mean no re connecting of solar to a running generator ? It's not a big deal for me but every little bit helps
One of the reasons I went for the inverter generator was so that the solar inverter would have a stable supply to sync with.
Deano
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