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Installation of a generator for a house.

Tomgunn
Hello all,


I'm moving house, (been here for over 42 years'!!), and one of the first items on my mind is installing an electrical generator.


SO; I guess there will be contactors / switch gear etc as I would like it to be 'automatic', (OR, maybe 'manual' too), changing from incoming to the generator.


a; What would be the best type of generator to purchase? Load wise? I'm not too worried as the bigger the load the bigger the           generator would need to be as long as I could run the basics within the house.


b; What switch gear would be appropriate?


I would't fancy the idea of switching tails around on a Henley block each time I needed the generator to be in use!!


Thanks, in advance!


regards... Tom
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    broadgage:

    link to a report "living without electricity"

    link.


    To be studied as firstly a good example of a major UK failure, and secondly just ill prepared were most people.

    Consider also the great Dartford power cut !

    And in Auckland, New Zealand, it was off for weeks. A popular joke at the time was

    Q  what did Aucklanders use for lighting before candles ?

    A  Electricity.


    Another one was a cartoon depicting a family with two young children who are staying at a remote rural farm. The children are playing with the light switches, for the fun of seeing the lights go on and off. The kindly looking wife of the farmer says "poor little things, they are from Auckland and have not seen electric lights before"


    WOW, I was working, under my ripped up flooring, using just four candles, (NO jokes please, haha), as the lights had gone out for a few hours' last year... for the 3rd or 4th time in a month!! I was doing honeycomb  brickwork, under the floor so, it looked ok, with candle light, haha!!


    I remember t'time when we didn't have any central heating, in't Yorkshire and a tin bath in Wales, haha... them were t'good ole days', (oh no they wasn't...  haha!!).


    Regards...


    Tom


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    broadgage:

    link to a report "living without electricity"

    link.


    To be studied as firstly a good example of a major UK failure, and secondly just ill prepared were most people.

    Consider also the great Dartford power cut !

    And in Auckland, New Zealand, it was off for weeks. A popular joke at the time was

    Q  what did Aucklanders use for lighting before candles ?

    A  Electricity.


    Another one was a cartoon depicting a family with two young children who are staying at a remote rural farm. The children are playing with the light switches, for the fun of seeing the lights go on and off. The kindly looking wife of the farmer says "poor little things, they are from Auckland and have not seen electric lights before"


    WOW, I was working, under my ripped up flooring, using just four candles, (NO jokes please, haha), as the lights had gone out for a few hours' last year... for the 3rd or 4th time in a month!! I was doing honeycomb  brickwork, under the floor so, it looked ok, with candle light, haha!!


    I remember t'time when we didn't have any central heating, in't Yorkshire and a tin bath in Wales, haha... them were t'good ole days', (oh no they wasn't...  haha!!).


    Regards...


    Tom


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