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
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
You need to verify the wiring from your generator through the transfer
panel. Depending on how it is configured, it is possible the ground does
not make it all the way through when on generator. This can easily be
checked with one of those 3 light circuit testers. I have run into this in
the field
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.
T
Ahh forgot the G/N bonding, in the industrial environments I
worked in, we never saw that one it was caught prior to hotting
up the circuit, but indeed home installations are a crap shoot.
Indeed the home I bought where I now live was like that I had
to make sure the G/N bond was solid as it looke
The other responses are talking about the correct way to deal with the
situation, I'm not as helpful. :)
I think the term you are looking for is "Power Conditioner" or "Line
Conditioner".
Here is the first search result:
https://www.beupp.com/generator/power-line-conditioners/
On Thu, Sep 24, 20
Yes, I've also run into the G/N bonding inside wiring issue before. The
error mssg on the UPS was "wiring fault". In that case moving the UPS to
another outlet solved the problem as the wiring issue was only on the
outlet.
Tripplite does recommend a specific UPS for use with a generator. It's
call
On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 21:04 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote:
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> none of the others. Computer PSU's can be noisy also as can any
> (Chinese) switching power supply.
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I wonder, without any desire or starting political flame wars, what has
"Chinese" to do with any of this stuff?
Are there any oth
Tomas,
My experience with switching power supplies has been that if they
are noise makers they are Chinese made. I used to install a lot of
Electronic asset control systems (anti-shoplifting) ; most of these
devices work in the region of around 60 khz. Back when the gas
discharge, fluorescent and
There is a difference between chinese-made and chinese-DESIGNED.
Its a known fact that some chinese companys exist to create low quality
knock-offs of name brand products in several different industries.
This is a nuance that often gets glossed over in casual conversation and
affects everything
Ben Koenig,
Sorry to ask, but you wrote "The obvious racism coming from our
current president" which introduced politics to this discussion.
Please give some actual examples of this, as there are a lot of false
accusations in the political world.
Please note that Trump has a number of minoriti
On 9/24/20 6:16 PM, Mike C. 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.
Turns out to be non-trivial. The generator is a Champion 7500
On 9/24/20 7:43 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
The other responses are talking about the correct way to deal with the
situation, I'm not as helpful. :)
I think the term you are looking for is "Power Conditioner" or "Line
Conditioner".
Here is the first search result:
https://www.beupp.com/generator/po
On 9/24/20 6:53 PM, Michael Barnes wrote:
You need to verify the wiring from your generator through the transfer
panel. Depending on how it is configured, it is possible the ground does
not make it all the way through when on generator. This can easily be
checked with one of those 3 light circuit
On 9/24/20 7:04 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
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 sign
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