kdkool
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I'm not an electrician either but that's what I believe the transfer switch would do. Isolate house mains from grid and apply converted power from truck to house mains. There'd be some sort of sensing on the grid lines and some sort of hysteresis prior to reverting to grid power if reversion is an option.FWIW I'm almost sure that you will need to install a isolation circuit on your house of some sort (or maybe your power meter does that already) to keep the power from your truck from energizing the nearby lines in the event of an outage.
Don't want a utility work to be working on a downed line, not knowing your truck was providing juice. Same thing with people that have whole home generators...
I'm no electrician so maybe this is already done at the power meter(one way meter), but we have solar (two way meter) so a shutoff had to be installed to keep our system from backfeeding the grid in the event of an outage.
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