Same here, your gen set may need a few minutes to stabilize but it should settle on 60Hz and since you do not have a large number of inductors and capacitors on the line it should be fairly clean.
You can find multimeters that will measure low frequency signals and of course 60hz is down there. This page from Amazon brings up a nice selection of both multi- meters and even digital panel meters: https://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Meter/s?k=Frequency+Meter Unless you have something weird in your gen set you should be getting pretty nice (probably better than PGE) sine waves out of your gen set. Of course there could be something wrong with the governor and it is not keeping tight control on the machine. The meter will tell you that as you cycle loads on and off of the machine. The stuff coming out of the wall socket can be pretty nasty. If you have worked with LF radio before particularly in industrial or large malls you should know what I am talking about. Some of the worse devices are fluorescent lamps, metal vapor lamps both low and high pressure, large rectifier stacks and other such goodies. You may have a few of the lamps on your home circuits but most likely none of the others. Computer PSU's can be noisy also as can any (Chinese) switching power supply. Check and stabilize the frequency, check and stabilize and do it again, make sure that the governor is responding fast enough to keep it stable. On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:16 PM Mike C. <mconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > You shouldn't have to buy anything to fix this problem. You should be able > to accomplish this by adjusting the governor / idle speed of the generator > to the rpm that produces a stable 60 hz signal. > > Ideally, you'd have a cheap multimeter to use to quickly and easily dial in > the rpm but if not, you could just try playing around with it until the > battery accepts the signal and starts charging. > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 5:56 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> > wrote: > > > During the fire event last week we were without PGE power a couple of > > times. We have a generator connected to the house through a transfer > > panel which worked fine for everything except the battery backup units > > we have for our computers. They rejected the power that wasn't a stable > > 60 Hz. I have now heard that this is not uncommon with some generators, > > and that there are devices one can use between the wall outlet and the > > battery backup to maintain clean power. > > > > Searching for these online is proving to be challenging. Some people > > call them inverters. The hits I get for inverters are for converting 12v > > to 120v. I tried power conditioner. That seems to be what I need, but I > > call upon the collected wisdom of this group for confirmation, or a > > suitable clue stick. > > > > The two search hits I looked at are: > > > > https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=120+volt+line+conditioner > > > > and > > > > > > > https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-Conditioner-Regulation-LS606M/dp/B00006B83G > > > > Further thoughts appreciated. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Dick Steffens > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960 _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
