Outback transfer breaker [RE-wrenches]

[Christopher Freitas --- OutBack Power]

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Hey Kurt - good questions!  

Wiring up the OutBack input/output/bypass breaker assembly as you 
described is within the approval of the PS2AC - you should just be sure 
to label all of the wiring and breakers appropriately to ensure that 
someone else (or yourself in a few years) can figure out what is going 
on.  There is no requirement that the panel matches the diagram 
internally - its just a "typical" configuration for reference.  

Basically, you are making the inverter bypass assembly into a 
Grid/Generator selector switch instead.  I think this eliminates the 
bypass functionality - but that is not something that is required by the 
code anyways.  

As far as the neutral/ground bond issue - it depends.  If the seperate 
load center is a typical service entrance type panel - than the bond 
will already be in place there.  If its a "subpanel" type - than I would 
put it in the PS2AC enclosure.  You also need to consider if the 
generator itself has its neutral/ground bonded internally as well - if 
it does than it either needs to be modified or use it as the bond 
location. 

Christopher Freitas
OutBack Power Systems, Inc.
cfreitas @ outbackpower.com  
www.outbackpower.com
Arlington WA USA
Tel 360 435 6030  


sunwise wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I like the fact that the inverter/generator transfer switch manufactured
> by AEE disconnects the generator/utility supply to the inverter in the
> same motion as transferring the home's loads over to the generator or
> utility.
> 
> In a single VFX system using a PSAC2, I used the open/unused inverters
> side of the transfer switch as generator supply to the inverter making
> that a one motion transfer switch as well.  Will this pass inspection
> being that it is not per manufacturer's instructions/documentation?
> 
> Seeing as I may have Christopher's ear, and being that the documentation
> doges the neutral/ground bonding bullet, if the PS2AC is feeding a
> separate loads center, where should that bonding take place?

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