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You can buy a regular heavy-duty cord, cut the female end off and buy a male end replacement intended for repairing broken cords.

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Someone should make viral ticktock using these to charge iphones faster by taping the charger to the prongs.

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A 120V male-to-male extension cord would be dangerous because that house circuit it gets plugged into is likely designed for 15A Max, would overheat if too much draw from everything connected within the house. On the other hand, a 240V male-to-male range cord could handle ~50A and be a much safer solution, though dryers, ranges, water pumps, big AC becomes a tremendous load on top of 120V appliances connected. Dryer cords are usually rated for 30A.

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You are correct. Got some smartasses here in the comments, though...

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Being smarter than you isn't always the same as being a smart ass, but it is the case now. Lol

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Fairly common way to backfeed from a generator. Can you do it wrong? Sure! But there's nothing stupid about the cords, just the people using them.

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-titlegore

-this cord is perfectly acceptable to power a circuit in your house. It will only power the circuit it's plugged into, if the other breakers are turned off. The fridge usually has its own breaker, no other plugs should be on that branch. So, leave on the fridge breaker, the light breakers (usually 15 amps), and one more for plugs. Tell everyone in the house not to try to use the other breakers that are off.

This assumes your generator is not a tiny one. 1000w should be the minimum output rating for home emergency use. The bigger the better, for microwave oven usage etc. A fridge doesn't draw that much current, lights barely anything.

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This is only a single phase connection. Back wiring the 3 phase generator connection to your A/C compressor connection is much better.

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I don't see the problem as long as you turn the breakers off first and foremost, plug the male/male into the wall 2nd, and plug it into the generator 3rd. Once going, should be able to flip on each zone. Probably 1 or 2 zones at most. Like a glorified extension cord that uses the wiring in your house instead of the orange power cords.

Me, personally?

I'd op for the extension cords.

But this is not totally stupid. Just makes it very easy to make a mistake.

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The wiring to any given outlet is sized for the amperage an outlet would draw. Plugging a generator into an outlet will provide way more amps (for the entire house) through that branch circuit without an appropriately-sized breaker in the line and will overheat that wiring and probably melt insulation.

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Your home draws surprisingly little minus air conditioning, range, etc.

A breaker will work both ways even if you are back feeding the buss.

If you push 30 amps through a 20 amp protected branch circuit, it’s going to take a few minutes to trip. It gets exponentially shorter the higher the amperage is over the protection amperage. Not to mention the protection in the generator. These generators that have these nema 20 amp plugs (I forget what number it’s been a while) are protected 15 to 20 amps anyway. The breaker on the generator will trip.

What does this have anything to do with house wiring? Home power distribution is designed to protect wiring in these cases. This is nothing extraordinary it just appears so because it isn’t normal.

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No it won't. My generator is 1800W. That's fine for a 15A circuit. Al my lights are LED, so keeping all the lights on in the whole house is about 80W. No problem to backfeed .

If you understand electricity and what you're doing it's not a problem.

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Amps aren't pushed, they are drawn. The generator isn't going to just start melting shit. Whatever gets turned on to utilize power is what will draw amps.

As you started, the wiring is sized for the amperage usage. If you're going to use a generator to run your blender in your kitchen, the 12 awg wire will be able to handle to amount of current the blender draws to operate.

What you wrote is as retarded as saying "your 200 amp panel is going to melt all the wires in your house because the light wiring is only capable of handling 15 amps"

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You think the average person wouldn't try to run their entire house by plugging in a generator to a branch circuit?

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Cant see how. Maybe of you had knob and tube in your attic?

The draw on the line will only be what the appliance asks for.