I looked at this issue long ago. Solid state inverters are not a good idea because they put out square waves. The tried and true solution is a motor generator.
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, david stevenson wrote: > On Monday 26 January 2004 7:30 pm, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > FIrst of all I apologize of an OT thread, but i would like to get an > > estimate of how much power (in Watts) would this consume: > > > > motherboard: QDI Legend I > > processor: Celeron 333 MHz > > graphics: STB Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT chipset), 16MB (agp) > > sound: SB Live! player (pci) > > HDD: probably WD, at max 20 GB (havent bought it yet and the > > old one got > > fried by a sudden power surge) optional: DVD ROM (probably one of the new > > toshibas) > > > > I've searched all my manuals, and did some (not much though, I confess) > > googling, and havent found a satisfactory answer.. I'm asking, because I > > decided to put this into my car and I need to know what type of inverter I > > should buy. > > Hmmm, I think you will find the actual power used is not the important figure. > Power on peak will come in to it, but PC power supplies are expecting a sine > wave they can pull large pulses of power from and inverters put out a current > limited square wave, they do not work well together. Vastly oversizing may be > OK, but I have not tried it. > David > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
