About
Updated · 3 Oct 2026 · Sheet checked · 3 Oct 2026
A grid-side reading of the nameplate.
Outage Stack is a catalog of backup and off-grid power hardware for houses and small shops. Generators, portable power stations, and transfer gear. The homepage says the useful part in one line: buy the machine that matches the load, and ignore the bigger number on the box.
It is not a software stack and it is not a status page. It is also not Air Gapped AI. That project is a different site, airgappedai.co, an offline kit for a computer when the network is down. It is not a watts listing here. The desk note is Air Gapped AI.
The directory on the homepage, checked 2 Oct 2026, is a small set: 23 SKUs, plus sizing and compare guides. Inverter and conventional portables, a standby class, portable stations, transfer gear. Scope is the charter's scope. No bug-out retail, no installer directory, no city pages.
Matt Wyatt, PE. Utility grid engineer, twelve years, Joplin / Riverton area. The Air Gapped AI about page uses the same name and the Joplin, Missouri line. Same person. Not the same site, and not the same job for the reader.
The work is why the catalog argues with nameplates. Loads that do not match the study. A transfer that did not transfer. Storms that take out the thing the drawing treated as fine. Outages are a normal job, not a collapse story. The question for a house or a small shop is simpler: what still runs, at what running watts, and for how long.
Drafts are machine-generated. Nothing publishes until Matt reads the manufacturer sheet himself and signs off.
This is a desk review, not a lab. The method rule stays: no model number, no page. If the sheet and a retail title disagree, the sheet wins. A skip does not get softened because a future program might pay. Affiliate IDs are not set. Links on the pages stay plain.
Running watts are what the machine can hold. Surge is a short window for a motor to start. Marketing prints the bigger number. Pages here lead with running.
A station is sold in watt-hours. A generator or inverter is sold in watts. Do not mix the units. When a station page estimates runtime, it uses the rule already on the method page: usable watt-hours are about rated watt-hours times 0.85, then hours are that figure divided by the load in watts, rounded down. The 0.85 factor is an Outage Stack planning assumption, not a promise printed by the manufacturer. Fuel runtimes for generators are not filled in to make a table look done.
The short version lives at How we judge watts.
A hardware page should let you say what the unit will run, for how long at a stated load, which figure was the label, and who should walk away. The compare pages and the load guides sit beside the SKUs for that reason: fridge, well pump, furnace blower, a three-day ice storm.
If the question is which files you can still search when the internet is down, that is the other site. Start at Air Gapped AI. A surge rating will not answer it.
Questions about a page on this catalog, or about the kit on the other site: contact@outagestack.com.
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