We purchased a Natural Gas powered from a store here called Farm and Fleet. It has it's own breaker box and it automatically switches over to generator with in short period of time after the power goes, there is some delay since our power sometimes just flickers. It also kicks off when the power returns. It powers all of our refrigerators, freezers sump pumps, furnace pump, some lights and of course the computer equipment. You can get them to power the entire house. Ours was about $1700. for the generator and another $1000. to install. It works well. You can also get them to run off of LP gas if you do not have access to natural gas. When they installed they ran wire from the main box to the generator box so you do not have to run wire that far.
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We purchased a Natural Gas powered from a store here called Farm and Fleet. It has it's own breaker box and it automatically switches over to generator with in short period of time after the power goes, there is some delay since our power sometimes just flickers. It also kicks off when the power returns. It powers all of our refrigerators, freezers sump pumps, furnace pump, some lights and of course the computer equipment. You can get them to power the entire house. Ours was about $1700. for the generator and another $1000. to install. It works well. You can also get them to run off of LP gas if you do not have access to natural gas. When they installed they ran wire from the main box to the generator box so you do not have to run wire that far.