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Skibane
Apr 24, 2011Explorer II
MrRchitty wrote:
we toasted the little night lights.
A few small, inexpensive devices (LED night lights and some digital timers) use a transformer-less circuit to produce low-voltage DC from AC. This scheme works fine with the sine wave waveform that normally comes out of an AC outlet, but doesn't work at all with a "modified sine wave" AC waveform.
A couple other devices that are often reported to have problems with MSW power: Makita cordless tool battery chargers, and certain laser printers. Some fan motors also run slow and noisy on MSW power.
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