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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: What Other Freaks Are Talking AboutPosted by Paul S on: 12/8/2008
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I forget now what I was following, but I wound up at AVforum, where they were discussing power regenerators.
Although it sounds like most present efforts are digitally based inverters/wave generators, there were references to motor/generator systems as being around since the 1950's. I still like this idea.
I also saw this: http://www.powerware.com/ups/selector/solutionUPSConfig_PART.asp?RegionUPSID=387&cx=3
Most of this big, expensive stuff is for medical and lab equipment, that sort of thing. Hi-fi? Who cares about that?
I am pissed to have to consider efficiency at all, but at over two HP to drive a 1 kW generator, one does start thinking about the bill. However, I am also quite leery of contemporary digital switching, comparators and signal generators, which are basically there in the interest of efficiency.
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