Electrical & Power Output

Somebody always asks me, usually holding a laptop or pointing at a new TV: is the generator power safe for […]

Once you own a generator big enough to run part of the house, the next question is how to connect

The trick that makes small inverter generators so useful is that you can gang two of them together. Instead of

An extension cord that’s warm to the touch, discolored, or visibly melting at the plug is telling you it’s undersized

A generator GFCI outlet that won’t reset almost always has a fault on the circuit — something plugged into it

A failing AVR (automatic voltage regulator) shows up as output voltage that’s consistently high, consistently low, or fluctuating under a

Generator brushes are small carbon blocks that feed excitation current to the spinning rotor through two copper slip rings —

To test generator output with a multimeter, set the meter to AC volts, start the generator, and put one probe

A generator battery keeps dying mostly because portable generators barely charge their own batteries — the built-in charging circuit is

What does your setup look like? That question decides everything about grounding, so sort yourself first. Running extension cords from