Backfeeding a Generator to Your House

[Charles (in GA)]

Well I went out just now and grabbed on to it. You can move it some, but not really "slop". Id say if you walked into, you would be on the ground and it would still be hooked to the house, if that's what you mean.

The unit is large, extends the meter way away from the panel, and your meter (especially if an older mechanical meter) is rather heavy, and all of this is held in place by the spring grip connections in the meter socket and to some degree by the locking ring.

I suspect if you can go out to your meter and place your hand flat on the face of the meter and push up and down with say ten pounds or so of force and it moves, you can expect it to move with the generlock in place. If your meter is tight (either due to the meter socket gripping the connections tightly, or due to a tightly designed locking ring, then it probably won't have any appreciable movement.

You Tube link.

look at 1:02 and again at 1:36 and 1:40 in the video to see what the "loose" meter is all about.

Charles