Monetization Transparency
Affiliate Disclosure
Make Your Own Tools may earn a commission when you click a product link and make a purchase. This does not change your price, and it helps fund hosting, maintenance, testing, and new calculators.
How Recommendations Are Chosen
Product recommendations should connect to the calculator result or planning scenario on the page, such as a battery capacity range, solar panel size, NAS disk count, or infrastructure deployment need.
Editorial Independence
Affiliate availability does not guarantee a product will be recommended. The site should prioritize practical compatibility, clear tradeoffs, and user intent over the highest possible commission.
Future Affiliate Programs
Potential categories include solar panels, LiFePO4 batteries, charge controllers, NAS drives, UPS units, server hardware, VPS providers, and cloud infrastructure tools.
User Responsibility
Calculator outputs and product ranges are planning aids, not a substitute for reading manufacturer specifications, local electrical rules, warranty terms, or safety documentation. Before buying or installing hardware, confirm voltage, current, connector type, enclosure rating, thermal limits, and compatibility with your existing system.
Clear Labeling
When an outbound recommendation is an affiliate link, the surrounding page should make that relationship clear. The goal is to keep monetization visible, understandable, and secondary to the usefulness of the calculator result.