If the Electrician is incompetent to lockout the main, is he competent to install the transfer switch?
True, but surely we're talking about a situation in which an untrained,
non-electrician will be doing the transfer most of the time?
All of us here at ECN might be capable of safely locking out a main and making a temporary connection for a generator in an emergency situation where power is needed
right this moment and there's no other way.
I don't think that means that we should install such as a system as the standard method though, and certainly not where an unskilled householder who doesn;t really understand the dangers is going to be using it.
