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Like anything, you can spend as much as you want on it. The really big ones just flip over automatically. They have some smarts to shut off certain circuits, so you have power to the lights and refrigerators, but not to the AC or the dryer.

You can get smaller setups, where you can plug in a generator like I have, and then throw the switch to shut off the power company circuit and use your generator. Again, you have to pick what you need because 5000 watts won’t run the stove, the fridge, and the sump simultaneously.

At our house, when we need to run the generator we just run extension cords everywhere, to the fridge, the freezer, and the sump.

You can also cheat and make a 220v male-male connector. One goes into the generator, and the other goes into your dryer outlet to backfeed into the household system. This is really not recommended. If you forget to turn off the main breaker you can literally kill an electrical worker. Grab that male connector wrong and you can kill yourself. They call it a suicide cable for a reason, and the people at the hardware store get real mad if they find out you’re trying to make one.