• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    But doesn’t the transformer convert the current back up? So it could be way more than 120v on a line that they’re expecting to be shut down. At least that’s my understanding of it.

    But either way yeah, they probably check for it, but no you shouldn’t do it because you there’s a possibility that you could kill someone.

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      23 days ago

      You’d have to be pumping up quite a bit I think to reverse through the residential transformer with just your little generac home unit, but you may be correct if there are no one way circuits or backfeed fuses. Even so, hopefully it wouldn’t kill. Home voltage stepped up would lose its amperage and be like an extremely anemic taser potentially.

      I’d love to hear from an electrical worker on the topic, but yea, it’s the amps that kill more than the volts.