Can your generator handle your entire house + barn load?
If not, you've got to split the loads to be fed from the generator out and put them in a sub panel.
Where is the service entrance equipment? Barn or house? I'm guessing that the generator is in the barn and you have 2 - 3/0 conductors plus 3 #10 conductors running between the two. Without knowing where all the pieces are, and the answer to the first question (above), we don't have enough information.
How do I rig these components up so it works?
============ wires between house and barn
-------------- 000 ------------- -------------- 000 ------------- HOUSE -------------- #10 ------------- BARN & generator -------------- #10 ------------- -------------- #10 -------------
============
SERVICE ----* \ |\ | *--------- LOAD to house and barn | | generator ----* | | | SERVICE ----* | \| \ *--------- LOAD to house and barn
generator ----*
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spare transfer box:
60 amp ----*
put the generator output on the 000 wires and the transfer switch at the house end the rest should be obvious.
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If you want to be safe, have a licensed electrician do it, using approved transfer equipment - not a "knife switch".
A "knife switch" is not approved for that function. And the installation should be done by someone qualified.
If you do not have enough self respect to be concerned for your own safety, consider the safety of others.
Ed
He's Baaaakkkkkkk....
You run another set of 000 back to the house, run all your power out to the barn, where you have a LEGAL, PROFESSIONALLY INSTALLED transfer switch installed, and then power the house and barn form there...
simple, really, it is called 'installed to code!'
Charlie
Whosh... That one wasn't even close: he has no concern for his own safety, let alone anyone elses!
At this stage Jon qualifies as a serious troll, he knows which buttons to push to get us jumping.
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