Re: [pvusers] Issue 34 re: EMI from SW4048
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:37
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Subject: [pvusers] Issue 34 re: EMI from
SW4048
< Also, will the not-so-true sinewave
pattern make a difference for other electronic appliances?
I'm an old-fashioned cheapskate who uses a modified
sinewave inverter (Trace DR2412) for all AC loads that we find occasion to use.
Over the years I have found that many more
appliances will work with less than pure sinewave than is generally
credited.
The computer I'm using to write this e-mail with is
one example.
The things that did not work were a visitor's
electric guitar amp - which was probably for the best - and A.C. motion sensors
- which were a ridiculous proposition in the first place due to staggering
conversion losses.
Before the advent of phone lines here we used to
use C.B. radios (D.C.) for neighborhood communications and had no interference
troubles if the inverter happened to be running.
I'm sure that adherents to the new "all A.C."
installation mania would run into more trouble than I have.
The old adage regarding appropriate inverter use
went something like this..."Small load, long run time, D.C. - large load, short
run time, A.C."
Nowadays we've got folks who believe that it is
neither advisable or practical to "hang a small D.C. circuit on a powerful
battery array."
Hey kids! Let's buy more P.V. equipment so we
can waste more power!!!! *
*Sorry...couldn't resist getting my swipe in on
the recent on-list salesman flap!
Good luck with your project
Teri Farrow
Pushmataha County Small-Timer's Club.........doing
nothing in a big way
Goat Hill.....powered by free-standing
photovoltaics since 1995
