Having a device like this being sold on a public website like EBay, sets a whole new precedence.
As has been mentioned above, these devices and others like them can and have killed line-workers in the past.
To blame a line-worker for thier in-attention during an outage, for some idiot down the road, is just stupidity in itself.
That "idiot-stick" that someone referred to above, is a one shot test, current at the time that it was performed.
While the HV side should always be Earthed while being worked upon, exactly how do you do that when you have a whole set of poles and lines lying on the ground?.
IMHO, if you want to use a genny on permanently installed wiring, get a transfer switch.
The thing that would concern me most would be if the CB on the genny was bypassed because it couldn't deliver the expected current. [Linked Image]

Explain to my co-workers wife, why a guy needed heat and A/C while my mate died from a back-feed??.
I go with NORCAL's idea. [Linked Image]

[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 01-12-2006).]