I call it a modified square wave... Perverse marketing types...

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 5:24 PM TomasK <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 17:00 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > I have used the true sine wave version that is about 1000 VA
> > to keep medical gear alive, Costco carries them some places
> > in store but also on line.
> >
> > I try to go sine wave, the power co's have really gotten trashy
> > with the power now since appears that they no longer worry
> > about keeping clocks and other gear disciplined.
> >
> > The newer switching power supplies do NOT like the modified
> > sine wave (lie lie... really modified SQUARE wave) that comes
> > out of the non-sine wave boxen. I have lost a lot of lab gear in
> > hospital labs because biomed insist on using modified sine
> > wave rather than pure sine wave, have one hospital where I
> > have had to replace 3 tissue processors due to that. It cost them
> > but finally someone listened and replaced the stinking UPS with
> > a real one that generated sine wave power....
>
> What kind of person calls this modified sine wave:
>
>          +--+            +--+            +--+
>          |  |            |  |            |  |
> _    ____|  |____    ____|  |____    ____|  |____
>  |  |            |  |            |  |
>  |  |            |  |            |  |
>  +--+            +--+            +--+
>
> as suppose to square wave:
>
>       +-------+       +-------+       +-------+
>       |       |       |       |       |       |
> ------+       +-------+       +-------+       +-------+
>
> blows my mind - no wonder switching power supplies do not like and
> overheat in the best case.
>
> -T
>
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