How to Power your Home after a Hurricane Strikes: Part Two

After a hurricane strikes, you will want to be very careful to avoid potentially life-threatening dangers.  Some of those dangers are likely to be around any corner, once you emerge from your shelter.  The potential dangers are hiding in flood waters, your basement, your yard, and car.  Be cautious and know the warnings and how to avoid making a life-threatening mistake during your clean up and repair efforts. 

As we talked about in the post; How to Power your Home after a Tornado Strikes: Part One, you must be very cautious about what is going on in or outside your home after a natural disaster strikes.  See part one for some tips on how to avoid potential dangers after a storm strikes your area.

Take all steps to make sure it is safe to run emergency power to your home, as we talked about in part one.  Once you have done this, it is safe to prepare temporary power to your home using a portable generator.  Generators have outlets installed into them and the most common outlets are the NEMA 5-15R, NEMA L5-30R, the NEMA L14-30R, and the NEMA L14-20R.  We also stated if you have one of the two NEMA L14-30 or L14-20 receptacles, you will likely not have the other. Most generator’s do not have both of those outlets installed into them. 

In part one, we showed you the AC WORKS™ brand products available to the NEMA 5-15R and the NEMA L5-30R outlets.  Today we want to share with you the products we have available to bring solutions to your NEMA L14-30R or NEMA L14-20R outlets.

GENERATOR WITH NEMA L14-20R RECEPTACLE OPTIONS

 ADL1420520:

The ADL1420520 compact plug adapter is a NEMA L14-20P, 20 Amp, 125/250 Volt plug to a NEMA 5-15/20R, 15/20 Amp household T-blade connector.

ADVL1420520:

The ADVL1420520 V-DUO adapters is a 4-prong, 20 Amp, NEMA L14-20P locking plug to two NEMA 5-15/20R household T-blade outlets.

L1420PR:

The L1420PR is an indoor/outdoor extension cord, currently available in lengths of 10, 25, and 50 feet.  The indoor/outdoor SOOW, 12/4 cable is a 20 Amp, 125/250 Volt generator cable with a 600 Volt rubber jacket, 4-wire, 12 AWG, 20 Amp Copper Wire.  

GENERATOR WITH NEMA L14-30R RECEPTACLE OPTIONS

ADL1430520:

The ADL1430520 compact plug adapter is a NEMA L14-30P, 30 Amp, 125/250 Volt plug to a NEMA 5-15/20 Amp household T-blade connector. 

ADVL1430520:

The ADVL1430520 V-DUO adapter is a 4-prong, 30 Amp, 125/250 Volt locking male plug to two NEMA 5-15/20R household T-blade outlets. 

ADL1430F520-FD:

The ADL1430F520-FD power distribution unit adapter is a 4-prong, NEMA L14-30P, 30 Amp, 125/250 Volt plug to four NEMA 5-15/20R, 15/20 Amp, 125 Volt household T-blade outlets.

L1430F520-018:

The L1430F520-018 is a 1.5-foot 30 Amp, 4-prong, NEMA L14-30P locking plug to a four NEMA 5-15/20R, 15/20 Amp, 125 Volt household T-blade outlets.

L1430F520-025:

The L1430F520-025 is a 25-foot, 30 Amp, 4-prong NEMA L14-30P locking plug connected to four NEMA 5-15/20R, 15/20 Amp, 125 Volt household t-blade outlets. 

L1430PR:

The L1430PR is an indoor/outdoor extension cord, currently available in lengths of 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100 feet.  The indoor/outdoor SOOW, 10/4 cable is a 30 Amp, 125/250 Volt generator cable with a 600 Volt rubber jacket and 4-wire, 30 Amp, 10 AWG Copper Wires.  



The products in both this post and part one will allow you to get more power to each of your home appliances, lights and anything needing power in your home during an outage.  If you have any questions, concerns or comments leave them for us below.