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Jon, I really can't tell from your post, aside from politics, and reliable safety, (At any even a marginal level) if you were for against this tripe being marketed to the general public?

Aside from back feeding a main, and killing a linesman, the item is not safe by any design, reguardless of codes, politics of liability, and/or personal responcabilty. That said, we are a country of laws and standards for reasons to great to even go into. Technically what this guy is doing is fraud by representation, that his instruction is anywhere close to safe for a consumer with no electrical training what-so-ever.

Will it work yes... I have wired probhably a hundred buildings in some of the scariest wiring methods one can think of while in the military, but not that method with a male cord... Usually a generator (30-500kw) with some undersized wire direct to some kearneys connecting whatever was left of abandon buildings in a war ravaged land, direct to the lugs, and no OCP except the failure of the generator or wire. Wire whole camps for 20,000 with # 8 draped over the top of tents to tapped 12/2 SOJ to feed lights and recepticals in a few hundred tents with nothing but a thin layer of tape over the connections and not a single J-box, CB, or GFI connected to 2 parraleled 500kw gennies. Airfield lighting with 600+v running over the asphalt across the taxiways. I could go on and on. It worked! Was it any way shape or form safe by our standards, no. It was "field expediant", it worked. But the odds of getting shot at were much higher than getting electrocuted. Electrical wiring standards did not exsist. But I never did something like what this guy is selling.

Here in a first world country, I would never do those things above, or promote them. If the guy was selling instructions in detail on how to do it properly to a first world standard, I would have absolutely no problem with that. (Female cord, transfer/interlock... whatever)

Even something as silly and ghetto expediant as this below... It works, but in the very least promotes some safety. Even though, if you drop that inverter off the air cleaner of your running engine you would get 50 lashes with a cable for your stupidity.






[This message has been edited by e57 (edited 01-10-2006).]