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That's why I haven't visited the "other" forum in many many months. Plus I want this forum to be the premier military generator information forum. While Smokstak is "technically" an engine forum, this one is dedicated to MV's and MV equipment

If you are feeding the transfer switch with a breaker out of your main panel and then it's going into a sub panel, you can get by with putting a 60 amp breaker in your main panel, and using #6 copper wire from the main to the transfer, and the transfer to the sub.

Vaughn, that is only true for Automatic transfers. When you are using a manual transfer method, it is assumed you are going to be practicing some kind of load management. If you have an automatic transfer and automatic starting generator, then absolutely, YES you must use a 200 amp transfer...

And therein lies the problem...The breakers are designed to protect everything downstream of itself. That's why if you put a sub-panel in your house, but only have 1 20 amp breaker in that box, you still need to feed the sub with wire rated for 60 amps. Because that's the size of the breaker...

I ran into this situation a little while ago at work about the amperage ratings of type SO power cord. You might be surprised to learn that to be up to snuff by the code amperage ratings of type SO cord you need to use a #4/4 cord for the full power rating of the MEP-003a. Before everybody...