During the wash cycle, I turned the water level to half (for the rinse cycle) - which I've done many times before. The washer just stopped altogether and no light, no nuthin in that room. Strange thing is, none of the breakers are tripped. I reset them all anyway. The outlet is 5 feet from a water source, it doesn't have, doesn't really need gfci. Any clues?

I had my generator wired directly into my circuit box. I had a 30a 220 breaker, which matches the 30a breaker on the generator. (You get the idea: turn off the service breaker and as many other breakers as necessary; start the generator and turn on its breaker into the box.) For the wire I used three strands of #12 wire, with two wires each to the 220 poles and to the two grounds. I learned this from a friend and his father. Father was chief of maintenance at a big wood processing plant. However, a guy who wired a new addition to our house mildly chided me on this. His argument was that unless the two mated wires to a given pole were of identical length, the current would only go down one. Makes some sense. On the other hand, an argument could be made that if that wire began to overload, it would create resistance and the current would flow down the other wire. In rewiring, I used 10/3 from the box to an outside socket, but still using my old three strand from the generator to the socket. Thoughts?