About Solar Backup Lab
Solar Backup Lab is an independent reference site covering portable power stations, solar generators and home battery backup. We publish verified specifications and calculated runtimes — the numbers you need to work out whether a given unit will get your household through an outage.
What we cover
Battery backup for homes: keeping a refrigerator cold, a CPAP running, a router online and phones charged when the grid goes down. We concentrate on the 1,000–1,500 Wh class, because that is where the price, weight and capacity trade-off lands for most households buying their first unit.
We do not cover whole-home standby generators, permanent solar installations, or anything requiring an electrician and a permit. Different problem, different site.
Editorial standards
- Sources linked and dated. Every specification traces back to a manufacturer or authorized retailer page, and a figure you doubt takes one click to check.
- Arithmetic in the open. Runtimes are calculated from those specifications with the formula printed alongside, so you can substitute your own equipment's numbers. See our methodology.
- No ratings. No stars, no scores, no "editor's choice" badge standing in for the comparison table.
- Contradictions published, not smoothed over. When a manufacturer's own pages disagree, that is information, and we print it.
- Commission disclosed everywhere. Before the link, not buried in a footer.
Who writes this
Solar Backup Lab is a small independent publisher. Pages are researched and written by the Solar Backup Lab editorial team and reviewed against the source specifications before publication. We are not sponsored by, affiliated with, or supplied by any manufacturer whose products we cover.
Corrections
We would rather be corrected than be wrong. If a figure here does not match the source we cited, or a manufacturer has revised a spec, write to us and we will fix it and re-date the page.