I would trip the 240v breakers if you do that. You can back feed the
other side through the load if you don't and that is not a good thing.
You may not actually have any 240v stuff tho if your big stuff is
fossil.
That goes without saying but maybe I should have mentioned it. Besides
the main, I will shut off *all* the breakers including the 240v AC,
water heater and stove. Then, I'll turn on the 15 amp breaker that
feeds the shed, the 15 amp breaker that feeds the furnace and one or two
others *if* they are on the same leg of the 240 service.
That should work and from what I figured out in Irma, you can have
most of the breakers on if you use a little discipline and turn things
off when you are not using them. The only breaker I really had off was
the water heater plus the main that was interlocked with the in feed
breaker. The central AC was off at the stat and we knew enough not to
use the oven. With some load management I could use a stove burner but
I had 2 propane burners in the outside kitchen so there was no need.
We pretty much walked around using things normally. The thing we
missed was hot water and it was ironic because the generator had
enough waste heat to boil the 40 gallon tank several times a day. That
was one I thought about quite a bit. The ambient was still well over
80 and my water heater is outside so it wasn't freezing water.
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