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You want one of these. It handles the neutral bonding issue as well. Works for a standalone generator or the 30A Outlet in the bed. These have to be provided or authorized by the utility company. Mine was installed at no cost by PG&E here in Nor Cal. If you add solar panels you can create a...

Hardwire. Game over. Full stop. It’s just not worth the risk. I have installed several of these and other 240V Outlets. An overlooked issue is the torque induced on the connections by the large wires. Unless the wire comes in straight from the back you must cut the wires to different...

What he said! Currently being manufactured by Tesco.

See if your utility supports these:

??? Do you have an integrated meter and panel? Mine are separate.

PG&E part is BS

Mine came for free from my local utility - PG&E in Northern California. I believe the utilities have an arrangement with Tesco. Check with your utility first. I believe they are OEMing a device from Generlink: https://www.globalpowerproducts.com/transfer-switches/generlink-transfer-switch/...

Nope! All taken care of in that collar. Plus those breakers in the cable protect the truck/generator.

You are correct sir! Here is mine! And it powers the whole house! This is what @Ford Motor Company and the other OEMs should be pushing.

I agree with your point. However my family members do not like having to stop that long. Plus EA access on road trips has become problematic given increased EV sales (I know I know). Yes Supercharger access will help. Luckily my Sierra EV Denali is due in June with it’s 400+ mile verified...

Suggest you switch to Enphase. It is simply a better approach without a single point of failure. And for the time being you want one of these to use the 240V 30A outlet in the bed for home backup. You can use a standard EVSE to charge the truck when the sun is up during said outage.

@Ford Motor Company can thank Jim “Adam Osborne” Farley for pre-announcing the T3. If you do not know who Osborne is, look him up. Osborne Computer could have been a major player! And the proprietary Home Integration System (HIS) did not help. What Ford should have done is push the 240V 30A...

Hopefully it crashes and burns like the @Ford Motor Company home Integration system. There is an ISO standard for this functionality! Why must the OEMs try to force their own single point of failure string inverter based systems on us...

I was advised of two additional Meter Collar vendors: This startup: https://connectder.com/ And some company called Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/learn/tesla-backup-switch

The cable has protection inline. That is the picture I show with the two reset buttons. This function is also covered in the manual pages I subsequently posted.

Thanks for the marine info! I learned something! Based on commentary here, I did a terrible thing! I read the manual supplied by PG&E. Pages of interest excerpted below. Note: As a veteran of many legal encounters, I recommend downloading the manual and printing it out for the truly paranoid...

Looks like this is the company that makes the devices PG&E is installing: https://www.tescometering.com/ Please give them a call and advise us on the UL certification of the device.

The Lightning has been verified to work with the PG&E variant.

Yes one should turn off the breakers for automatic high consumption devices. The instructions also state solar systems must be disconnected via the associated switch. I am trying to work with Enphase to support this meter collar generator input when one of their System Controllers is...

As the collar provides no power, there is not a mechanism for the meter collar itself to do any damage. When utility power returns, the collar switches back to utility mode. The generator is disconnected automatically. In the event of a Lightning strike (no pun intended) on the house that...