Danface
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I just successfully tested using Pro Power to feed the entire house, including at least of the two minisplits. The lockout is simply a sliding piece of metal that prevents the 30 amp, 240 volt breaker from being switch on when the main is on and vice versa. The nice thing is this means no hard wiring to certain circuits. We have town water and a gas fired hot water heater so the house was pulling .55 kw on one leg and .65 kw on the other so about 1.2 kw overall which makes feel comfortable about being able to use the other minisplit unit if need be. I generally only run one at time though. I did switch off the 240 volt dryer and EV charger breakers just to reduce the likelyhood of going over the 7.2 kw.
BTW, the configuration has a floating ground to prevent the truck GFCI from tripping.
I'm going to use the same setup at out place in Maine since outages there are pretty common.
Just figured I'd share the info.
BTW, the configuration has a floating ground to prevent the truck GFCI from tripping.
I'm going to use the same setup at out place in Maine since outages there are pretty common.
Just figured I'd share the info.
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