If you are not planning to have it inspected you can use 3 wires. Hot, Hot, Neutral. Throw in a ground to be safer and legal if you want.
-Dave Walton On Dec 17, 2007 9:23 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin, work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AH HA. Thats kind of what I was thinking. The neighbor next door wired > their gen into the house and I was sort of looking at it and it looks like > they replaced one of the outlets in their garage with a 240 or whatever > drier type outlet. IIRC, the regular house outlets with 2 outlets have 2 > sets of wires. I assume they would have wired both sets of wires into the > same drier type outlet? Is that what the 4 prongs are on those? Sorry, I > am completely electrical stupid. > > --- > Kaleb C. Striplin > Cox Auto Trader > 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Cathey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 8:18 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] generator > > > >> outlets and had lights to half the house. Tried another outlet and had > >> lights to the other half of the house. Wonder why it only would do > >> half? > > > > Because the typical US home is fed with 240V, center-tapped > > off the supply transformer. > > > > That gives you two 120V halves of the house. You happened > > to use one outlet on each (electrical) side. Adjacent breakers > > in the fuse panel tap alternate halves. That's why 240V > > breakers are double-high, they pick up both halves together. > > That's why back-feeding one of the 240V outlets gets it all. > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
