You can get pretty fancy with some of these things. I am doing research now and saw a vid of someone hooking up his generator to power his house and he switches on and off the specific rooms/appliances he needs. This way, you don’t have to plug “only the stuff downstairs” and just manage it at the switch box level.
Really nice and I doubt I could or want to deal with it myself since I’ll probably get fried. 🙂
But that would be really convenient since it’ll happen again for sure.
There was one at Costco for 699 for the ETQ 7250 just after the blackouts. Sold out now. But you’ll need various other pieces I believe to make it all work.