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- From: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Need info on Power Inverters & why some devices dont like sq waves
- Message-ID: <44@ravel.ati.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 05:10:36 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.221155.19203@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Reply-To: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
- Organization: KUFX 94.5 FM Stereo, San Jose, CA 'The Fox'
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- In article <1992Aug27.221155.19203@midway.uchicago.edu> gary@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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- >Anyone got the scoop on power inverters?
- >
- The square wave types are generally inexpensive, simple, reliable, and
- efficient. The relatively fast rise time may cause buzz in some
- sensitive audio circuitry.
-
- The biggest problem that arises when a square wave feeds ordinary
- linear power supplies is that with the significantly lower peak
- voltage of the non-sine wave input, the equipment power supply
- rectifier-capacitor combination will produce a much lower voltage.
- Sometimes, a subsequent regulator may then not see a sufficient
- input-output differential.
-
- Generally, if equipment having a linear power supply will work down to
- 90 VAC sine wave input (test with variac), then it will do fine on a
- square wave inverter.
-
- At KUFX, I have three Tripplite SPS units which blast square waves into
- the main air studio and engineering room equipment for up to one hour
- twenty minutes if the power fails. It works perfectly; we don't even
- get any buzz on the microphones. You know the time is up, however,
- (besides looking at the battery voltmeters I supplied) when an
- increasingly loud hum/buzz appears on the air - linear regulators
- giving up.
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