Rural and acreage properties across the hinterland — safe, compliant generator changeover installation so you can power your home when the grid goes down.
If you live on acreage in the Noosa Hinterland, grid power outages are part of life — storms, trees on lines, equipment failures. A generator is a sensible backup; a properly installed generator changeover switch is what makes it safe and legal to connect to your home's wiring. Ultralec installs generator changeover systems across Cooran, Pomona, Cooroy, Eumundi, Kenilworth, Imbil and surrounding rural areas.
Running a generator by plugging it into your home through a back-fed power point (a "suicide cord") is illegal, dangerous, and can electrocute linesmen working on supposedly de-energised lines. A compliant changeover switch physically isolates your home from the grid before connecting the generator — protecting your home, your generator, and the power network.
We'll recommend what suits your property, your generator and your budget.
Many Cooran and hinterland properties have specific needs — long supply runs, water pumping that can't afford an outage, workshops, livestock. We've done these jobs and understand the quirks. Proper isolation, proper labelling, proper circuits that matter on backup.