Our pick for the best overall standby generator, the Generac Guardian, is selling on Amazon for less than anywhere else.

But upgrading to a standby generator is not just about convenience ... This means that when the power grid fails, an ...

Both provide electricity during an outage—the choice comes down to convenience, price, and powerA portable generator (left) ...

One of the best safety nets homeowners can give themselves is a whole-house generator. This type of generator instantly powers on during an outage, providing electricity for lights, refrigerators, air ...

If you've been putting off conducting maintenance checks, you could be doing more damage than you think. An automatic transfer switch (ATS) is a critical part of any emergency power supply system ...

After Hurricane Ike knocked out electricity to most of Houston in 2008, my 83-year-old father fired up his portable generator, running extension cords through an open kitchen window to a handful of ...

If your home is much larger than 2,500 square feet and you need more power, we also recommend Generac’s 26-kilowatt home standby generator as an alternative. The other benefit to this bundle is that ...

All of the equipment in the server room (8 servers, 5 switches, 2 routers, 3 firewalls, and a couple NAS boxes) is powered by a Smart-UPS 2200XL, and the load indicator on the UPS has never gone over ...

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