PRODUCT REVIEW SAMPLE: Generlink Generator Connection System

Well, we just got through a 12 hour power outage here on Manitoulin and I wanted to

show you this thing here. This is called a generlink and this is the unit here

This is the meter, the kind of thing that's on just about everyone's house

But the generlink fits in between the meter base and the meter and it makes it very safe

and easy to connect a generator to your household system. I've just switched this off now because the power's come back on

I can see that because it's starting to read something now on the meter

But the generlink is just about the easiest method that I know of for connecting a generator

to your house. This cable here comes undone and stores away with the generator and when you want to hook

it up, you just hook it up and start your generator. The unit here is smart enough to know whether grid power is back on or not

When grid power comes back on it automatically disconnects the generator and everything's

safe and legal and works quite well. I don't know of a simpler method of making a generator connection to a house

It's kind of interesting here on Manitoulin. We get quite a few power outages and I think that might be because the island is fed power

only from one main line. It's not like a lot of other regions on the mainland where you might have power feeds

coming in from different directions and if one fails, another can take over

There is only about a 30 mile stretch of countryside where that power feed comes to

the island and it's quite rough country. There's some islands and steep granite hills and I don't know if that's where the ice storm

that we've just gotten over caused the break or not. But whatever the cause, we had power all day and this little generlink unit has served

us well to make that sort of thing happen