{"id":310374,"date":"2019-10-21T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=310374"},"modified":"2019-10-21T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:06:20","slug":"cuc-turn-off-main-breaker-to-avoid-generator-back-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cuc-turn-off-main-breaker-to-avoid-generator-back-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"CUC: Turn off main breaker to avoid generator back-feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is advising all CNMI residents using generators to ensure that their main breaker on their home panel is turned off to prevent any electrical back-feed. This poses a danger to line crew and severe injury and death can result from these incorrectly installed generators. <\/p>\n<p> Do not use generators without the proper electrical switches. All generators should be connected through a double throw switch to protect your property and the line crews working on the system. <\/p>\n<p> Incorrectly connected generators can cause a back-feed through your secondary wiring back to the overhead transformer whereby re-energizing the overhead system to 7,970 volts. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, monitor CUC\u2019s Facebook page for the latest updates at (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonwealthUtilitiesCorporation\/) or call the CUC Call Center: (670) 664-4282, CUC Outage Hotline (670) 236-4333, CUC Tinian (670) 433-9261\/9264\/9265. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is advising all CNMI residents using generators to ensure that their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}