hello,
if i have very bad unstable mains (huge amount of spikes, some over 4kv) and want to protect my little retro project - does it make sense to turn all three wires in the mains cable around a separate ferromagnetic torus or is it this not better than choking just the phase wire?
I would get a Line Interactive UPS that runs the inverter all the time. That will give you about the best line conditioning you can get.
Voltage spikes are no laughing matter when it comes to electronics.
thanks for replying so fast
line interactive is that type which catches all anomalies, right? i was looking at apc pro 900 a few days ago - it was about half the required total power, but the price - just awful
i'm looking into cheaper alternatives that i can first test on my contemporary hardware
First, call your power company to fix that.. It's unsafe for one, and it can damage anything plugged in. Second, I would run an isolation transformer with an AVR UPS behind it.
Indeed, that's extremely unsafe. Line voltage should typically be +/- 5%. Multi kV range transients could begin tracking across and degrading the insulation of your household electrical system.
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You need an online ups, not a line interactive. Online ups makes it own sinus all the time, line interactive only makes one, when input fails.
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
Cyberdyne, you mean that backup ups kicks in only when input fails? Line interactive one is turned on all the time, correcting the voltage. (Though, its not creating the whole output power from scratch)
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!
Double conversion vs line interactive.
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