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Comment by wccrawford

No, I think it's that we've been repeatedly told of the dangers of plugging a generator into a socket of the house and the problems that will occur if the power comes back on if it's still running.

When we had our solar installed, we had to make sure we had a newer power meter that could handle power both ways, so it probably is a problem for some situations, but the power flow for a single solar panel into a plug isn't enough to trip this, or maybe newer power meters are better?

We definitely think of it as somewhere a power comes out of, but I don't think it's the name, just that it's only ever been that way.

Clearly some people think of it differently if they're plugging generators into wall sockets to power the whole house, dumb as that may be.

parent wccrawford 19 days ago

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