Home backup generator
TM 5-811-6 is the Army technical manual on electric power plant design. It is written for facilities. The parts that carry over to a house are the load you plan to run, keeping a generator outdoors, and a transfer switch so generator power and utility power cannot meet on the same wires.
List the loads you want during an outage: a refrigerator, a few lights, phone charging, and any medical device. A portable power station covers small loads for the hours its battery holds and does not use gasoline. A fuel-burning generator covers more watts. It needs outdoor exhaust, a cord rated for the load, and fuel stored away from living space. A transfer switch or interlock is what connects the generator to house circuits. A cord with two male ends is not a substitute.
Read the manual for the layout of a power plant. The row below is Store items in your country whose titles match a generator, a fuel can, or a transfer switch. If the row is missing, the catalog does not have one of those right now.
