Re: [PSES] Consumer Equipment CS

2012-02-28 Thread Don_Borowski
Seems to me that it depends on the type of power supply in the equipment. Just about everything these days uses a switching power supply. Given that, the next question is whether it is harmonic/power factor corrected or not. If not, and the input to the power supply is simply a bridge rectifie

Re: [PSES] Consumer Equipment CS

2012-02-28 Thread Cortland Richmond
No we can't. It's not a modified SINE wave; that's just salesmanship, Ed. It's more like 50% duty cycle bipolar pulses. The far from technical Mr. Barney (AKA Google[tm]) leads me to http://www.rvtechlibrary.com/electrical/sinewave.htm: quote: ... Desktop computers are not in the same categ

[PSES] Consumer Equipment CS

2012-02-28 Thread Ed Price
I have a personal question about the ruggedness of consumer entertainment equipment to powerline distortion, and I would like to hear any thoughts you might have about this. The potential victims are 120 VAC powered televisions, radios, disk players, computers, etc. The environment is a recreat