Editorial Standards and Corrections

Source selection, confidence labels, corrections, and citation follow written rules instead of judgment calls. This page is those rules.

How sources are selected

Every specification field on this site traces to a source link with a verification date. These are the rules the catalog is built under.

  • Official product pages, manuals, datasheets, and manufacturer support pages come first; a retailer copy of a manufacturer table is accepted only when the manufacturer no longer publishes a reachable exact-model page, and the record says so.
  • A value the manufacturer does not publish stays unknown. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model, a marketing headline, or a third-party review.
  • When a manufacturer publishes two conflicting figures for the same field, the field stays unknown and the conflict is written into the record's notes.
  • Every record keeps its source URLs and a last-verified date, so any value can be rechecked against what the source said at the time.

What the confidence labels mean

Each model record carries one of three labels, assigned by rule rather than judgment.

Verified

An official source is present and every comparison field the record requires is filled: DC output, USB-C output, solar input, weight, and — when the unit has a continuous AC rating — surge.

Estimated

The record has an official or clearly documented source, but at least one required field is missing or the source is a documented fallback. Estimated records never present themselves as complete.

Unknown

Used at field level: a dash or unknown in a table is a statement that no usable source exists, not a formatting gap.

Corrections

Runtime outputs are estimates and specifications change. If a value here disagrees with what a manufacturer currently publishes, a correction report is the fastest way to fix it.

  1. Send the model name, the field, and a link to the source that shows a different value through the contact form.
  2. Reports are checked against the linked source; a confirmed difference updates the record, its last-verified date, and the model-data changelog.
  3. If sources conflict, the field is set to unknown and the conflict is documented in the record notes instead of picking a side.

Report a correction

How to cite this data

The station catalog is licensed CC BY 4.0. Quote any value together with its last-verified date and attribute WattRunTime.com with a link to the model page or the model database.

License: CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution. Machine-readable exports: stations.json and stations.csv. CC BY 4.0· stations.json· stations.csv

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