The power supplies should handle it fine. But one thing to consider with the modified sine wave is the noise/harmonics which can bleed through power supplies that were designed for grid power. You won't know if it works till you try it.
Greg On Mar 10, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote: > Hey Guys, > > For running commodity routers, radios, servers on a remote site, is > using a modified sine wave acceptable? I have some electrical engineers > at the site im working on thinking of putting in a modified sine > inverter, and joining them up with a large battery cache. > > The question we raised was, will a modified sine wave be > damaging/problematic for things like a Ubiquti Radio/POE Injector, small > WRT54GL router, small switch, and two servers (300-400w each). > > Let me know. > > I searched the lists and found this, > http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/2007-July/027900.html but I > didnt see the impact on the equipment there, just UPSes. > > I am going from: > > [very dirty mains 90-120v] - [battery charger] - [battery bank] - > [inverter] --- outlets, [Equipment Transformers] - [Equipment] > > Ideas? Other power engineers on site brought along a Chicago Electric > Inverter #95596 - > http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=95596 > > -Israel > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
