I have two 200amp panels in my house. Both are fed by a single wire each and both of those wires come from a single meter. I would like to purchase a 30-40KW standby generator and I am trying to figure out how to attach these to feed the whole house. Automatic transfer would be nice but manual transfer using breakers and knife switches seems more likely and just fine with me. So what would you do?
My idea: when the power goes out I shut off the 200amp breakers at the top of each panel, then have one panel fed directly from the generator via a breaker I switch on. Then feed the other box from the first box with another breaker I would turn on. This would allow me to fully control the power on and power off of my generator as well as keep everything in a comfortable order. This would work right? How could it be done with automatic transfer switches.
My idea: when the power goes out I shut off the 200amp breakers at the top of each panel, then have one panel fed directly from the generator via a breaker I switch on. Then feed the other box from the first box with another breaker I would turn on. This would allow me to fully control the power on and power off of my generator as well as keep everything in a comfortable order. This would work right? How could it be done with automatic transfer switches.