[H-GEN] Inverters and Computers

[Doug Young]

for sure ... I meant to try getting one myself but like always ....
never seems enough hours in the day

Doug Young wrote:

> Dick Smith had some cheap sine wave kits a while back .. apparently
> end of line runouts ... think they were asking about $120 for 300 watt ones
>
> which sounds quite economical if they have any left in stock
>
> Frank Brand wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any opinions,
> >
> > A friend of mine wants to use his desktop computer in a mobile
> > situation. He wants to obtain 240 V AC from an inverter.
> >
> > He has three option viz,
> >
> > 1. Sine Wave form (expensivest solution).
> >
> > 2. Simulated sine wave ie. cropped sqare wave form (mid-cost solution).
> >
> > 3. Square wave form (cheapest solution).
> >
> > My question is - Can he save some money and obtain the sqare or
> > simulated wave form inverters. Taking into account that the power so
> > generated then goes through a transformer will the voltage cleanliness
> > (? what the fsck do you think I mean by this) and voltage stability be
> > sufficient for the computer to run OK?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Seems an expensive way of going from 12V DC to 240 V AC to 5 V DC again
> > doesn't it?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Brand
> > E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
> > Home Page: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand