My neighbor has a generator that is hard-wired to his home's electrical panel. As he describes it the generator "backward feeds" the power to the panel and then to the open circuits.

My question: if a battery tender is plugged into the bike and an outlet, in the situation of a power outage does the bike's battery "backward feed" into the home's power system and drain the battery?

Seems like both scenarios are the same.


(Minutia like that gets me to over-think stuff)

Thanks.

Sammi

 

Nope.

 

Man, you're thinkin' too much.

 

No, BUT...the resulting power surge when the power comes back on can fry your ecm.because the tenders are not rated to prevent it...so better have the tender plugged into a anti-surge device.

There...that should keep you up until 3 am.

 

I agree, but can't do anything about it!!!

 

If everyone's battery hooked to their tender back fed into the electrical grid, everyone's lights would be on. That was an easy one.,,,

 

Could you just imagine 12 volts feeding back into the power grid. The damage it could do.

 

Agreed. In that situation a surge-suppressor IS a great idea.

 

Hey funny guy, I was thinking of the short amount of time it would take to drain the battery!!!

Sammi

 

The tenders have diodes in them to keep them from reverse current.