After reading Bingo's posting and wondered why he was disconnecting the opposite power source while he was using the Iota switch I emailed Iota about getting feed back from a gen set to the Autoformer and if you are using their switch the Gen Set power will not feed through the Autoformer. So when I get an Autoformer I will wire it in to one side of the switch and use a portable surge protector to use at what ever source that I am using.
Here is the answer from Iota and my email.
Hi Don,
You should have no problems. All neutrals and hot legs are isolated in our ITS switches.
You are correct in thinking that neutrals from two power sources should not be tied together.
If you have further questions, just let me know.
Thanks,
Jay Settlemyre
Iota Engineering
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Ross [mailto:donaross@telus.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:46 PM
To:
dbull@iotaengineering.com
Subject:
I have a 2008 Montana with a Shorepower or Gen set Iota switch. If I hook to Shore power will it feed back to the Gen set side or Gen set feed back to the Shorepower side. I would like to hard wire a Autoformer to the Shorepower cable and do not want any back feed from my Gen set to the Autoformer as they are damaged by Gen sets
Thanks for any help