Air & Power Equipment

Walk down the compressor aisle and every machine looks like a variation on the same idea: a motor on a tank. The differences that decide whether a compressor is useful in your garage are CFM at pressure, duty cycle, pump type and how the tank is shaped. Rating them by horsepower alone is how people…

A 4000-watt generator is the size most homeowners land on when they want to keep a fridge, a furnace blower and a few lights alive during an outage. The runtime question is the one that decides whether that plan works at two in the morning, and the honest answer is that the number on the…