I prefer a gooner rhombus.

Thats a transfer switch, and that’s exactly what you want here. You want only a few essential loads on the generator, not your entire home. The furnace should be on it, modem and networking equipment, a few outlets for charging phones, refrigerator and deep freeze. Sump pumps.

The electric hot water tank doesn’t need to be on the generator. The welder in the garage. Electric range. Dishwasher, Christmas lights, EV charger, pool heater, spa, or other big appliances that can be done without in an emergency.

https://interlockkit.com/

You have two bus bars in your breaker panel. It is designed to be fed from one main breaker. But, electricity can flow backwards through a circuit.

An interlock kit is a simple device that allows either your main breaker to be turned on, or a different breaker to be turned on. Not both at the same time. With such an interlock in place, you wire the auxiliary breaker to a generator inlet box, so you can plug your house into your generator.

A non-contact voltage detector is the rest of your answer. The detector is locked on, and placed where it can pick up voltage on the main feed into your house: tape it to the main feed into the breaker panel. When power is restored, it starts beeping, and you know you can transfer back.

Do it the right way, because you aren’t the only person who might be doing it, and the people who learn from you might not fully grasp the concepts involved. They might get lazy, skip steps, and set their home and/or generator on fire.

Yes.

However, “best” is subjective. What is “best” for the worker is not what is best for the shareholder. Every cent that company pays its workers is a cent that can’t be paid to shareholders, so the CEO’s motivation is to fuck over his workers as much as they will tolerate.

Thanks, I hate it.

I was pretty sure you guys on that side of the pond could draw a lot more… AFAIK, you have kettles that draw 3000W, which is 12.5A @ 240V.

(Technically, we can install an outlet capable of doing that, but they are not typical in residential use. Outside of commercial-grade appliances and dedicated circuits, we’re pretty much limited to 1500-1800 watt portable appliances here. Fixed appliances like ranges, water heaters, pools, spas, are effectively unlimited, of course.)

It depends on where the fault is. Starting at the input power from the cord, the first component on the circuit board is going to be a factory installed fuse. It’s probably the same on circuit boards made for UK and EU devices because it makes good engineering sense to do it that way, even if the plug is equipped with a fuse. So if the fault is somewhere on the board, it blows the appliance fuse. If it’s somewhere before the appliance fuse, it blows either the plug fuse (if equipped), or the breaker.

No. Our appliance wiring standards basically require every appliance to be able to tolerate a fault current high enough to trip a breaker. We put a 20A cord on a 500mA clock radio. If we get a short inside the appliance, it will draw enough current to trip the breaker.

The UK allows appliances to have much much lower fault current requirements than their household wiring. They can get away with this by including a current limiter (a fuse) in their plugs.

We do have provisions for fuses in plugs, but they are typically only used where we would use a lot of very low current wiring: Christmas lighting typically has a tiny fuse in the plug protecting very small wiring.

15A @ 120V. Basically, 7.5A @ 240V.

so they have to routinely change the the tiny circuit breaker at the consumer unit,

If I understand the nomenclature correctly, your “consumer unit” is our “load panel” or “breaker box”. We use 15A or 20A breakers for our typical outlets.

If you used unfused plugs, your lower-rated cords could potentially reach fire temperatures without drawing enough current to trip the breaker in the consumer unit. Which is why you use fused plugs: to protect the lower-rated wiring from higher current.

The US uses a different approach. If we used power cords rated to 5A for a 5A appliance, and we plugged them into a 20A circuit, we could have the same problem: A 15A fault current through this cord wouldn’t trip the breaker, but could start a fire. So we don’t do that. Even on our lowest current, corded appliances, we use a cord that is rated to carry a 20A fault current capable of tripping the breaker.

(You will occasionally find cords rated for 7A. This is 7A duty current, and the limitation is because of the specific appliance socket, which has a fuse immediately inside the casing, and other restrictions. The 7A rating is not on the wire itself. On these cords, the wiring is still required to have a fault current rating of 20A)

There is a kind of person who knows how to do that safely, but that kind of person has already installed an actual load transfer switch to do it the right way.

Vance is an opportunist. He does or says whatever he needs to say. For example, In 2016, he was a “never Trump guy”

It means that he’ll suck up to whoever he needs to suck up to in order to advance his own interests. His spinelessness is how he managed to get where he is.

With Trump’s midterm implosion, an opportunist is free to attack Trump era policies. He can potentially thread the needle. He can argue that as VP, his job was to support the president’s agenda wholeheartedly, even if he disagreed with it. He can point to his 2016 “never Trump” creds to show that he didn’t think Trump was right for office, but that the public disagreed, and supporting the will of the electorate was more important than his personal beliefs.

Now that the public has turned so hard against Trump, Vance can claim he is now obligated to act in accordance to his constituents.

Opportunist doesn’t necessarily mean “truly evil”. The only people around for him to suck up to will be blue, or out of power.

What worries me is that the only real path Vance has to the presidency in 2028 involves him finishing out Trump’s term. He’d take the wind out of Democratic sails with his coup, and revitalize the GOP. He could be in office until 2036 if he coups Trump after January 20th.

The remaining MAGA holdouts in the Senate will block Democrats calling for impeachment.

But, there is an interesting possibility… If the call for his ouster comes not from the Democrats but from JD Vance executing Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, GOP Senators and Representatives have sufficient cover to support it.

10 years ago, JD Vance was very vocal about his hatred for Trump…

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Doesn’t that just punish people for participating in the publicly traded stock market

If you can call billionaires “people”, then yes. That is the express point. It only applies to the portfolios of artificial “persons”, and to that part of a natural person’s portfolio in excess of $10 million in value.

It does not target all people. If you are a natural person and your investment portfolio is worth less than $10 million, you will not owe even a tiny fraction of a single share.

This doesn’t affect actual people. It affects the kind of people who grossly manipulate the market simply by participating in it.

That ignores private equity membership interests which have practically zero transparency

It’s not just the stock market: it is all securities. All tradable financial assets. Stocks are just the easiest to see.

It is simple enough to avoid this tax: simply disperse that equity among natural persons. When you run out of family members and close friends willing to hold your billions of dollars in a shares, $10 million at a time, you can turn to your employees. Offer them ownership stakes in the business they have built for you, and the government won’t steal that interest and sell it to your competitors.

Yeah, you’re probably right.

Still, we can tax excess securities. Natural persons can have up to $10 million in securities. We’ll apply an annual 1% tax on everything above. We’ll take an equal percentage of each issue in their portfolio to cover that tax. No selling shares, no liquidation issues. Just take the necessary shares themselves. Transfer them to the IRS who can appoint a liquidator to sell those shares slowly over time, such that no more than 1% of total traded volume of any issue is ever comprised of tax shares.

Not until the state charges are dropped. Then, yeah, openly declare the health insurance industry a clear and present danger to the health and safety of all Americans, extend Medicare to all, pardon Luigi, and declare hunting season on everyone with more than $10 million in registered securities, no bag limit.

Where do I get the right to tell you anything about how much clothing you must remove from your children?

That’s what you’re doing. You’re giving me that power. You’re telling me that my decision on what your children must wear supersedes both your judgment, and theirs. They don’t get to wear what they want, because I have decided that they need to show me some skin.

You think I should have that power because your beliefs are superstitious nonsense and you can’t be trusted to exercise those beliefs?

Seems perfectly fine to me.

^ This is fascism. This is what fascism looks like. It slips in quietly, and polishes away those minor nonconformities that have been so offending our delicate sensibilities It establishes and promotes the idea that we’re all better off with just a touch more authoritarianism. One more edict, one more imposition of state against an individual we don’t really like. That’s “perfectly fine”.

Fuck that. Democracy says power flows from the people. The state serves the people, collectively and individually. And the state has no legitimate interest in dictating what may and may not be worn by children.

This law is bigoted nonsense.

Legally dictating how much of a minor’s body must be exposed to the general public? Are you fucking serious?

What right-wing fascists are promoting this law?