Source research
Reviews model-specific manufacturer pages, manuals, specification sheets, retailer listings, and public safety records.
Author profile
Andrew Petla
Founder and lead researcher accountable for Find My Generator’s catalog, comparison methods, source standards, and published corrections.
Named accountability
Who stands behind the work
Andrew founded Find My Generator and is accountable for its catalog research, sizing tools, comparisons, sourcing standards, and corrections. His role is to turn fragmented product documentation into comparisons that show their inputs, limits, and evidence instead of asking readers to trust an unexplained score.
Research responsibilities
Data & calculations
Normalizes output, runtime, weight, price, and battery data and maintains the site’s sizing and scoring logic.
Safety & corrections
Checks safety language against authoritative guidance and owns the correction process when information changes.
Experience and limits
Andrew’s published expertise on this site is product research: reading source documents, structuring specifications, checking model identity, explaining generator sizing, and documenting how recommendations are calculated. Pages link to their supporting evidence and distinguish published facts from FMG calculations and editorial judgment.
Find My Generator does not present Andrew as a licensed electrician, professional engineer, generator technician, medical professional, or manufacturer representative. The site does not substitute for an installation assessment, electrical design, local-code review, equipment manual, or qualified professional. Any future specialist review will name the reviewer, their relevant qualification, the scope they reviewed, and the review date.
How Andrew’s work is reviewed
Andrew currently performs the final editorial sign-off using the published FMG checklist. That review covers exact model identification, source quality, specification transcription, reproducible calculations, safety wording, affiliate independence, open evidence gaps, and the visible review date. It is an internal review, not an independent third-party certification.
Hands-on claims require a separate public test record with the tested unit, acquisition terms, instruments, conditions, raw evidence, excluded runs, limitations, and reviewer. If that record does not exist, the page is labeled as source-reviewed rather than hands-on tested.
Standards and corrections
Read the complete editorial policy, data methodology, and testing protocol. To challenge a fact or calculation, use the correction form and include the page URL and a current source.