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We use our 5500 watt generator about once every other year. It is a portable unit on wheels that I keep in the shed next to the garage. It's enough to run the well, furnace, refrigerator, and other appliances.
I don't have it hard wired because I also use it out in the field or yard at other times. I just turn off the main breaker and plug the generator into the 220 socket in the shed to back-feed house. Two pulls of the cord and it always fires up. Cheap, simple, easy to wire up.
One thing that would be handy is a pilot light wired to the utility side of the main breaker that is in the house and let's you know when power returns.
I just pulled the muffler off and I'm going to adapt a small car muffler to it. There's just no need for those small engines to be that loud.
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