Gary T., I have mostly solar battery/inverter experience at home but in the field I have used some generators that were small with no frills and some that were rather nice. All had A.C. plugs that we just ran extension cords to. We usually sandbag the generator location for the noise. I have run a bunch of laptops, P.C. desktops, radios, meters and even Air Conditioning units from them with no problems. If there are any RFI problems all of this sensitive gear would certainly show it. We would've heard it on the radios for sure. I have heard of certain items that don't like the wave-form off of an inverter. I have a small T.V. that won't run on my solar batteries and 750W inverter. For sensitive items (read expensive) I just use a surge protector. Hope some of this rambling helps or at least brings up other questions... B) Tnx es 73 de n7zi Gary "Why buy something for ten bucks when you can make it for a hundred.", J.R. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+n7zi=comcast.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+n7zi=comcast.net@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of A. Gary Thompson Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:58 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages I heard recently that you want to get a generator with an inverter in it. The last 3 or 4 years the generators with inverters have become available and are as clean as power from the power company. I heard that on a Ham Emergency Net Meeting. Don't know any more than that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuckhards@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages
Don, Gary, anyone with practical generator experience; is interference a problem these days, or are most modern generators in the 5kw-10kw class pretty clean? Any after-market RFI filtration needed? Don, sounds like you run your computer just fine on the generator?
Thanks
C.
--- "Don J. Colton" <djcolton@piol.com> wrote:
I have a 8000 watt natural gas backup generator with a transfer switch so it comes on automatically 30 seconds after the power goes off. It is also relatively quiet, 70 decibels. It has come in handy many times but I only needed it for a few hours during the current power problems.
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