Generator installations and backup power wiring

Load shedding taught Pretoria a lot about backup power, including some bad habits. Extension leads through the window, generators back-fed through a plug point, inverters wired into the board without anyone checking what else was on that circuit. Those setups work right up until they do not, and a back-fed generator can put power onto a line someone else believes is dead.

We install generators with a changeover switch, so the house runs from either the municipal supply or the generator and never both at once. We also wire solar and inverter systems into the DB board, splitting off the essential circuits so the batteries run your lights, fridge and Wi-Fi and are not drained by the geyser.