3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
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Ringo5000 wrote:
Is there any way to condition the power from a gen like this to be able to run a pc and digital appliances?
It is time for an answer to the digital appliance question.
The power used by digital appliances is simply a transfer of AC power to DC power. this is done by running the AC wave form thru a Diode Bridge and smoothing it with capacitors. when thru doing this the voltage is flatline, using a medical type slang. most modern appliances use a PWM stage to get this flatline voltage to the proper regulated voltage. This is accomplished before the power is supplied to the components that do there Job.
In the digital world spikes are the killer, and this is fixed by what you call a surge protector, in the electronic field this would be called and MOV. one can add as many surge protectors as one wants one is enough but in some industrial stuff many are added. any problem that the rough looking wave form produces will be taken care of by this step.
most power supplies have low voltage shutdown features to protect against a low voltage to the electronics. It is highly unlikely that when going from 110v that this feature will become active. todays power supplies don't even use a transformer to change voltage untill after the wave has been smoothed as DC power.
Kevin
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