Generator & Backup

Generator & Backup opens on the question that actually decides the purchase: not how big a generator, but what, exactly, do you need running at the same time. Sizing comes first for that reason, with a load calculator that turns a list of appliances into running watts, the start-up surge that usually sets the answer, and the wattage class to shop in, alongside the per-appliance pages for a house, a refrigerator and deep freezer, a well pump, a furnace, an air conditioner, a sump pump and a 30 or 50 amp RV. Outage prep sits beside it for the week the power is already out: keeping a refrigerator cold, how long food lasts, carbon monoxide safety, fuel storage and stabilizer, whether a generator can run in the rain, backup power for medical devices, and the winter storm and hurricane checklists. Behind those sit the hardware hubs. Generators covers portable, dual fuel and tri-fuel, and the quiet inverter machines. Power stations covers home backup and solar, LiFePO4 against lithium-ion, and how to recharge one mid-outage. Transfer switches and connection covers switches, interlock kits, inlet boxes and cords, down to panel compatibility, cord gauge and the dangers of back-feeding. Costs and comparisons answer the money questions, and a reviews section works through the named models one at a time.

Picks follow the standards on this hub, and Generator & Backup runs on three rules it prints rather than a credential it does not have. No invented numbers: every specification is the manufacturer's published figure or a figure from a cited published chart, retrieved programmatically rather than retyped, and it will not publish a wattage it cannot cite. Its appliance wattage chart leans on the Eugene Water and Electric Board generator sizing chart and Champion Power Equipment's quick reference chart, both linked on the page, and where the two disagree it shows both numbers instead of quietly picking one. No testing claims: it does not operate a test lab and never says it does, so a pick is chosen against published criteria for its category — running and starting watts on each fuel, runtime, outlet configuration, transfer-switch fit and warranty terms — scored out of ten as editorial judgment and labeled as such. It goes further than most and deliberately declines to mark those scores up as review or rating schema, on the stated grounds that doing so would tell Google it had reviewed products it has never handled. No stale prices: no price is written into the prose anywhere, figures arrive from a live daily feed with the check date attached, and past 48 hours the number disappears and the button falls back to check price. It claims no licenses, no certifications, no years-of-experience figure and no trade credentials, it does not describe licensed installation work as something it performs, and it does not present stock photography as its own. As an Amazon Associate it earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to the reader; no manufacturer pays for placement, supplies product, or sees a page before it publishes.

Generator & Backup sits outside the six category groups on this hub, because home backup power is household electrical infrastructure rather than hunting, camping, fitness, sports or seasonal gear: the questions are electrical and the mistakes are dangerous, which is why the site spends as much of itself on carbon monoxide, back-feeding and panel compatibility as on what to buy. What it shares with the rest of the network is the method. Cite the document, show both numbers when two sources disagree, refuse the figure you cannot support, and name on the page the thing that was not done. One author, one byline, no staff page. It is live at generatorandbackup.com. Its footer names Iron Mako Media as publisher and links back to this hub, and its About page carries the Mike M. byline, so a reader can verify who is behind it in one click.

Generator & Backup is owned and operated by Iron Mako Media. It follows the same editorial standards as every site in the network and carries the network-wide affiliate disclosure: like every Iron Mako Media site, Generator & Backup earns commissions on purchases made through its links, and this hub carries none.