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Best Portable Generators of 2024
While safety is essential, our performance testing ensures that a generator will work as promised when you need it most. To do that, our expert engineers load up every model we assess with a variety of essentials you might want to power during an outage, like a space heater, refrigerator, or window air conditioner. (Check out our guide to see…
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Best Whole-House Generators – Consumer Reports
If you often lose power where you live, whether it’s because of storms or other problems with the electrical grid, having a whole-house generator ensures that your appliances are available when you need them, even hardwired devices like your well pump, water heater, and air conditioning and heating systems. Unlike a portable generator, these professionally installed units, also called home…
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Pros and Cons of Inverter Generators
To help you make better sense of your size options, we break our inverter generator ratings into four groups: 1. Large Inverter GeneratorsMost large inverter generators in our ratings weigh from about 150 to about 300 pounds (wheels included). That’s too big and heavy to haul along on a camping trip or to a tailgate party, but it’s also big…
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Best Inverter Generators – Consumer Reports
Just keep in mind that not all inverter generators perform equally well. Under demanding conditions, some models simply fail to deliver the power that’s promised, according to our tests. Our generator ratings (available to CR members) feature brands you’ll see whether you’re shopping at an online retailer, a home center, or a dealer: Briggs & Stratton, Generac, Honda, Predator, and…
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Best free AI image generators of 2024
Generative AI is growing in potential and utility with every passing week as companies continue to “one-up” each other. What began as creating nifty images from a quick text prompt has become full movie generation and animating previously static images. Still, when it comes to free tools, there are some excellent options for creating AI images. Recently, OpenAI announced free…
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