This is the outdoors panel. Main entrance breaker at the top, followed by A/C 100A, inside panel 100A, and generator 30A.
Here is another electrician recommended installation. Anonymous household in Florida.
Instructions are to turn off the main 200A breaker, shut off the 100A air conditioning breaker and the house 100A breaker.
Plug in the generator and get it running. Turn on the generator 30A breaker and the house 100A breaker.
In the indoors panel only those circuits needed will be turned on.
Notice the lack of any safety interlock between the generator and mains breaker. Turning on the generator breaker with nothing plugged in will result in exposed AC at the inlet. This is another example of poor design and very bad advice by an irresponsible electrician who should have known better.
Easy to backfeed the grid with no protection. Yet another accident waiting to happen.
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This is the outdoors panel. Main entrance breaker at the top, followed by A/C 100A, inside panel 100A, and generator 30A.
Panel cover removed. Generator inlet visible beneath outdoors panel. Meter and service entrance to left.
Closeup of wiring. No interlocks or any safety devices. Very real potential of backfeeding, exposed AC on inlet connector, etc.
Common neutral and ground bus at service entrance.
This is the indoors panel. 2 conductor wiring without ground lines.