Electrical & Power Output

When the engine runs strong but the outlets give you little or nothing, the stator is a prime suspect. A

Eco mode saves fuel and noise on an inverter generator, but it can also cause surging, flicker, and trouble starting

A refrigerator is one of the first things most people want to keep running in an outage. Here is how

Generator outlets look similar but are not interchangeable. Here is how to tell 5-20, TT-30, L14-30, and 14-50 apart, and

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