Stand by whole house generator...

[_Ogre]

rarely have a power outage

paying for the price of a whole house generator when you rarely need it?

i have a 5000 watt generator that runs my whole house fine
i just turn off the main breaker and plug it into the welder plug in my shop
i have $400 in the whole setup vs many thousands to have the whole house with transfer panel

we're on a well, have gas heat and hot water; so other than the fridge we don't have a lot running
i bought it after the big power outage that hit the whole north east for 3 days back in 03
they installed a lot of generators for other utilities, so that we no longer lose internet or cell phones