> The difficulty though is that the powersupply is highly irregular for the
> last month or so. (220 this morning, now early afternoon 202 volts). As
> soon as it darkens the power is down at 190). Formally I used to live in a
> village with 135 volts during the weekends and 220 during the week. I
> solved it by having two power stabilizers in between. But they got shortened
No wonder.
And I wonder if there are UPS's which take care of *such* conditions !
Jeezes this is much worse than what those petrol driven rattling small
power generators can produce (and these are a pain to live with, in a
quiet African village night).
Perhaps you should build your own little water turbine ? (A friend in
Sweden has it, he lives between two lakes with a small brook inbetween
them, and a 6 meter height difference; the property has the obligation
tied to the real estate to regulate the upper lake, and he gladly does
it - using a automated circuit with a Z80 type chip. Even heats his
big house with another - friction liquid - turbine, the ones you have in
trucks. Funnily enough he's got only very recently an email address.)
Alternative could be an array of 12 V car batteries fed continuously
by a surge-secured transfo/capacitor/tyristor circuit (careful!
these flower pot large electrolyts can be really dangerous and must be
shielded from accidental touch); you could then just skip the power unit
and feed the 'puter(s) with the various DC levels needed. Could be the
cheapest solution ?
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