A quick comment about "pure sine" devices. At times I operate a portable VHF and up radio system from rf quiet out of the way places. I run almost all the equipment from lead acid storage batteries. I have small 30 dollar inverter I use to occasionally power some equipment that needs 120 volts AC. It puts out very little RFI. I figured I'd upgrade to a much more expensive pure sine Inverter (I also wanted to run some linear power supplies from the inverter as well to get better voltage regulation for some of the equipment.) It was a disaster from an RFI perspective.
Your mileage may vary. Mark S VE7AFZ Sent from my iPad On 2015-10-10, at 7:51 AM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > Hi > > All of the UPS vendors these days make a wide range of products. They range > from > low cost to mighty expensive. They also range a bit in terms of performance. > Finding out > exactly what this or that model *does* do can be a major pain. The marketing > guys apparently > don’t want you to figure out that the low cost gizmo does not have all the > performance > of the one that costs 5 times as much. > > First thing to avoid - the pure square wave output versions. These may or may > not > generate RFI in this or that UHF band. They will take out big chunks of HF > and mess up 10 MHz > distribution. I suspect that the filters on some are better than the filters > on others. The bigger issue > is that they do not play nice with modern power factor corrected power > supplies. These supplies > seem to expect a sine wave and a (possibly ringing) square wave may get them > confused. > > Next thing to avoid - The stepped square wave / modified square wave > versions. Theses aren’t > quite as bad as the centuries old square wave units. It’s more likely you > will find these than a > pure square. They still have the same issues on RFI. They may or may not > antagonize a PFC > supply to the same extent. > > The target is a “pure sine wave” output. That keeps a PFC supply happy. As > with any verbal spec, > “pure” likely has a few qualifiers on it. It’s not guaranteed to take out the > RFI. It at least will reduce > the spikes on your 1 pps lines. If you look at the output on a ’scope the > waveform at least *looks* like > a sine wave. > > All of these gizmos run a switcher in the “few hundred KHz” range to generate > the output. They run > a similar switcher to charge the battery. None of them are compatible with an > indoor antenna in the same > room trying to listen to MF. None of the ones I have tried are nasty enough > to bother GPS, either indoor or > outdoor. Put another way, I’ve had more trouble from LED lights than from > sine wave UPS’s. > > Cyber Power (via Amazon) seems to make some pretty good stuff at a price > point a bit below APC. As > with everybody else, it’s a pain to figure out what’s what. Are you after a > “big” rack mount unit (as in $500 > and up) or something smaller? > > Bob > > >> On Oct 10, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Chris Waldrup <kd4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> I have decided I'd like to get a UPS to put on the rack containing my >> Thunderbolt, the laptop that runs Lady Heather, and frequency counter. >> Has anyone had bad experience noise wise with the APC brand units like are >> available on Amazon and at Staples? I'd like to get one that doesn't >> generate lots of RFI. Thank you. >> >> >> Chris >> KD4PBJ >> >> — >> Sent from Mailbox >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
