Hi guys, Scott here and as you can hear the winds blowing and what does the wind blowing mean around here power outages And I don't like a power outage and I'm sure you don't either that means no refrigerator no internet or No power in general Well, I have fish tanks and all kinds of stuff and I need my electricity I have a small generator that I can usually hook up and keep that refrigerator going But I want to come up with a whole house solution and we're going to talk about that today on data yourself So the first thing we need to do is get this breaker box ready to accept Substitute power that would normally come from the grid but come from my generator If you're not comfortable working with 240 volts in this case you need to hire a license electrician and before you do that Make sure you're familiarize yourself with your local codes and if any permits are required I hired the electrician He's already got the box off and he's going to be doing some swaps here so that we can have the power cutoff for the generator so Let's get on to it Okay, so the electrician didn't want to get filmed which I don't blame him, you know, that's his prerogative But I'll show you what he did so he took these two breakers here which are arc fault breakers that are for my loft and two of my bedrooms upstairs They were originally in this position and he moved them down here. They were two 15 amp breakers He replaced that with a dual 30 amp breaker which is for 240 volt service and you can see this is this bracket on here and So this is tied into The service that goes out here he drilled this hole right here and that goes out to the receptacle I'll show you that in a minute. I want to show you how this thing works What it is is this plate right here keeps it so that you can't send power to the grid So either the main is on or the breaker to the generator is on the two cannot be on at the same time because if you hook the generator up and the mains on You could push 240 volts right down the line and we wouldn't want to do that because you know The guy working out on the pole trying to fix your power. It's going to get zapped So this is a safety measure to prevent it will not allow you to have the Generator and the main on at the same time so the main has to be off to turn the generator on It's a physical block and this is required by code and by permit So in the case of a power outage what would happen is I would come out here and I would turn all the breakers to the off position And it wouldn't matter because there's no power so everything is kind of off Anyways, I'm going to switch the mains to generator so then the generator is going to be Generating electricity is going to be plugged into the house and then I'm slowly going to turn the load on One circuit at a time until the house is back on and you don't want to leave everything on and just switch this because You know in a power outage when the power comes back on the grid can handle that push and that draw When your house comes back to life But that generator if I was to just throw all the electricity and the draw from the entire house on it It would go into an overload condition It would probably just shut down So you want to turn these breakers on individually until the house is completely powered up And if for some reason you get to an overload condition you'll know what the extent is and What the limit is I personally I would turn on the kitchen the appliances first your water heater your furnace and stuff like that Maybe leave some of the bedrooms off if necessary just to take that draw But you'll know where it is my generator big enough to power my whole house So here's my meter box and now my electrician has put in this 240 volt twist connector that goes from a cable to my generator Two days later. Okay, so wouldn't you know it? I just had the electrician here maybe a week ago Hooking up everything in my power box for the generator and The power is out today. We had a pretty good rainstorm and a windstorm last night And we're gonna have wind for the next five hours and where I live wind is what takes the power out Fortunately, I got some charge batteries. There's Tyler. Hi Tyler. He's got the flashlight. Guess what I got Got a brand new generator right there 6500 watt Rio beat so I get a lot of crap from my wife That I own too many Rio be lights But you know what? I'd say they're coming in handy right now and this isn't even all of them, but let's get that opened up So not your typical unboxing video doesn't come with a lot actually Generator fully assembled a couple of wheels those get bolted onto the side right here a couple of feet Let's get put on right about there and then comes with a quarter of oil that has to go in there Doesn't come with gasoline, but that's all right. I got some in the back But let's go ahead and assemble this so I can roll it outside it is actually daylight out there But it is super windy and super noisy so once I get the wheels on this We'll roll it outside and start it up Okay Okay a couple of things before I open the garage door All right, because it's gonna be noisy and windy out there Never run your generator inside the garage Even though it's outside it's still inside your home and carbon monoxide can kill you My generator has a CO2 O2 monitor and it will shut off if it Detects that but frankly, I'm not gonna trust my life and the life of my family to that So this thing will always be run outside in the driveway where it's safe and I have a 25 foot cord to hook it to the house So it can be plenty of distance from the house. All right. Well the power is out So I'm gonna have to open up the garage door manually, so let's do that now So I wasn't joking when I said it was windy. I mean check out these trees moving over here And you can just hear it. I mean, it's crazy. So let's get some gasoline in this thing Get it fired up and I'll show you the safest way to turn this thing on and not blow everything up in your house So I picked up this cable from Harbor Freight, but they sell them just about any location that sells generators and it has a mail-and and a female end and the female end goes to the house It may be a little hard to see but the ground connection on this cable which has four connections is actually keyed with a little indent on it and then inside here that ground key is also keyed so this can only go in one way Like that and just like the house receptacle the mail end is keyed for the ground as well when going into the generator Okay, it's go time the wind's blowing and if you made it this far in my video You know what happens when the wind blows powers out it's out in my whole neighborhood We've got the generator hooked up chords already running over to Right over here so the receptacle I'm gonna go ahead and set the power box up and we're gonna start this generator out and turn the house back on Go ahead and turn off all the breakers in the house Okay Here's the generator Here's the main Let's go ahead and flip the main And I'm gonna go turn on the generator next Let's go ahead and switch on the generator input All right turn to start turn of the house back on Let's see that's the dryer I'm gonna leave the dryer off here's the water heater let's turn the water heater back on Well what do we got over here bedrooms Entry living room here's the stone Kitchen's there's all the kitchen dishwasher Oh look at that garage Turn on some bedrooms rest of the garage Always Family room Kitchen living room Master bedroom So the only thing I didn't turn on was my 240 to my dryer I'm not gonna run the dryer and I'm definitely not gonna be in here doing shop tools with no power Seems like everything's running in the house. Let's take a walk around Fish look happy Look at that even the hot tubs running Well, it looks like this was a success the lights are on and I have plenty of room in this generator if I needed to add more Hey one last thing before you buy something for your house Make sure you check to see what kind of load you have you can find that information on your utility bill or contacting your electrical provider But for me this reobey generator provided me more than enough to keep the lights on the refrigerator's cold and the fish happy in their tank If you have any questions comments or suggestion about this generator or what I did in this project put those down below Speaking of comments don't forget to like share and subscribe and if you do hit that bell for notification I've got some videos over here you may be interested in subscribe buttons right down there. Thanks for watching dad of yourself