Funny PSU Voltages
-
Trollslayer wrote:
You would need to use a full switching system that converts down to DC then back up to AC instead of just kicking in the batteries when the mains fails.
It is not only when the mains fail; frequency fluctuation can happen at any time. Do you know where I can find a reasonably priced solution for this problem? Alternatively, if a store bought unit would be very expensive, where I can get schematic diagrams for a solution? I am tried of burning out mother boards. They seem to go first. It is not an every week occurrence but it happens way too often for my liking. :sigh:
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesWell, you'll need an UPS with an auto-transformer. That means: line-interactive, double-conversion or online UPS.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
-
Trollslayer wrote:
You would need to use a full switching system that converts down to DC then back up to AC instead of just kicking in the batteries when the mains fails.
It is not only when the mains fail; frequency fluctuation can happen at any time. Do you know where I can find a reasonably priced solution for this problem? Alternatively, if a store bought unit would be very expensive, where I can get schematic diagrams for a solution? I am tried of burning out mother boards. They seem to go first. It is not an every week occurrence but it happens way too often for my liking. :sigh:
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesYou need a double conversion UPS. Everything else runs your system on main power except when it detects a problem. As others have mentioned they're not cheap, but no more so than one or two fried PCs. APC wants $300-400 for a desktop size unit. IIRC Belkin has one for $200ish. Unfortunately they don't make it easy to see what models have the feature. APC calls it topology, so search every page about one model in each family to find one that does it (within a family APCs're all the same topology).
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon