I'm actually not sure if I should put this here or in large scale

Friday Night, we got hit with a partial blackout - we lost a leg of the 220v, and were browned out on the other leg

Moved all the food to the fridge that was on the 'good' leg (we have 1 fridge on each leg - a good thing), broke out the 2000 watt honda, but decided NOT to start it up, and live with what was on the one leg. Of course, this left us with no AC on a 100 deg day

So, now we're seriously looking at whole house units - Looking around, a 17Kw unit should be able to do our whole place with no load sheading/management, but...

Does anyone here have any actual experience with both full house and or managed load units. We will go with NG power.

At my parents house, 3 miles away, they had 3 blackouts in 54 years (each time the whole east coast went down). My house, this was the 5-6 blackout in a bit less than 10 years. Seems the grid is a tad less stable by me (they keep loosing feeder lines under the streets, which take out transformers)