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Garden

Outdoor power equipment is where marketing numbers drift furthest from the numbers that matter. A trimmer's engine displacement says less than its line class, a generator's headline watts are not the watts it can carry, and both categories come with injury and carbon-monoxide records the sales page never mentions. These guides read the spec sheets, the standards, and the injury data — and cite all three.

Guides in this section

• How to Choose a String Trimmer: The Evidence, Audited
  The line-diameter classes that decide the purchase before any brand does, swath traded against power, battery vs gas after CARB's Model Year 2024 rule, and which body part the emergency-room data says to protect first.
• Sizing a Generator: The Wattage Arithmetic, Shown
  Running watts, starting watts, and the sum worked in the open; inverter vs conventional read off the spec sheets; the fuel fork in Btu and hours; and the carbon monoxide file.

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