Unnamed Administration sources reported that Ian S. Goldstein said: > Surge suppressors are designed to operate on a true sine wave > from the power company and will see the stepped approximated sine > wave as a spike.
I wince over this. The MOV has No Klew as to waveform. It just knows peak voltage. There is also no such thing as a square wave; it's really just a large number of sine waves combined. Google on "Fourier" and have at it. Homework is due Friday. But yes, if the invertor does create a dirty enough output waveform some of the sine waves have peak voltages into the MOV "on" range; you will have trouble. Unless there's enough inducatance ahead of the MOV. (Some outlet strips have inductive filtering to gag the fast stuph...) The irony is, linear power supplies with half-wave rectifiers and no regulation did not like square-wave-ish power; but switchers don't really care -- they just make DC out of the input as the first step anyhow. -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
