Wired new manual transfer switch for my generator today. it's a
Reliance Controls 30-Amp (4-Prong 10-Circuit) Indoor Transfer Switch - 30310A
it works great it was super easy to install. here's my basic install
ignore this next part if you're not interested, skip to after the dashes
connect green ground wire to one "neutral" rails. connect white neutral to same or other rail. In my case both "neutral" rails had white wires connected to them but one of them had all of the bare copper ground wires also. So I chose that one for my green wire and the other for my white.
now you remove the black wire to the breaker you choose , replace that with a red wire from the switch and tie your old black wire to their black wire labeled with the same letter as the red you just inserted.
repeat this x10 and you're good.
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installed without issue. tested all 10 circuits in LINE mode, power to all ten circuits from city power, as expected. switch each circuit to off. Power lost to each circuit. Switch to GEN and each circuit is off, until generator started then all powered up BUT ONE.
checked my wiring, all is correct. plugged in a light and went through all variations of LINE, OFF, GEN and all works except hen on GEN then nothing on that outlet (plan is for it to run my fridge, but it should run my lamp easily). ran the generator on that plug only and with other 9 live as well.
So, I wondered if it was that particular on/off pole on the transfer switch box. so I swapped it from pole D to pole E and retested. Same issue. so it's not the transfer switch because pole D works now with a different circuit but pole E won't power that outlet either. Now D and E are on the same leg of the switch but everything else on that leg works.
so my thoughts are
1. somehow a bad breaker in the fuse box. works fine without the transfer switch but something isn't working with it?
2. grounding issue? again the other 9 poles are working fine so not sure it's that. but it is something with that circuit and that plug.
its a 20amp breaker and I've got it on a 20amp on the transfer switch.
any ideas?
thanks
Shawn
Reliance Controls 30-Amp (4-Prong 10-Circuit) Indoor Transfer Switch - 30310A
it works great it was super easy to install. here's my basic install
ignore this next part if you're not interested, skip to after the dashes
connect green ground wire to one "neutral" rails. connect white neutral to same or other rail. In my case both "neutral" rails had white wires connected to them but one of them had all of the bare copper ground wires also. So I chose that one for my green wire and the other for my white.
now you remove the black wire to the breaker you choose , replace that with a red wire from the switch and tie your old black wire to their black wire labeled with the same letter as the red you just inserted.
repeat this x10 and you're good.
============================
installed without issue. tested all 10 circuits in LINE mode, power to all ten circuits from city power, as expected. switch each circuit to off. Power lost to each circuit. Switch to GEN and each circuit is off, until generator started then all powered up BUT ONE.
checked my wiring, all is correct. plugged in a light and went through all variations of LINE, OFF, GEN and all works except hen on GEN then nothing on that outlet (plan is for it to run my fridge, but it should run my lamp easily). ran the generator on that plug only and with other 9 live as well.
So, I wondered if it was that particular on/off pole on the transfer switch box. so I swapped it from pole D to pole E and retested. Same issue. so it's not the transfer switch because pole D works now with a different circuit but pole E won't power that outlet either. Now D and E are on the same leg of the switch but everything else on that leg works.
so my thoughts are
1. somehow a bad breaker in the fuse box. works fine without the transfer switch but something isn't working with it?
2. grounding issue? again the other 9 poles are working fine so not sure it's that. but it is something with that circuit and that plug.
its a 20amp breaker and I've got it on a 20amp on the transfer switch.
any ideas?
thanks
Shawn
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