I've been thinking of doing something similar....for my ham station. Get a big deep cycle battery and only have a low current charger on it.
I haven't done much ham radio in a long time. I guess I became less active around the time dialup internet became readily available. Since I one of the main modes I played around with was NOS. But, trying to get back in to...except I found that the wiring in my place isn't really suited for it. There's basically only two electrical circuits....one has my wall of home electronics on it, and the other has a ton of computers on it. I can turn my 60A power supply on, no problem...but key up full power....ends with all my UPSs beeping at me. As I think of it....while my previous home was older, it had a newer addition on it, and I did run some extra circuits (ugly/dangerous/exposed) to run my setup. Though I kind of thought it was because of my old laser printer, a Xerox 4045. > > I've been thinking about this issue for home use, especially with > Solar > power. > > currently you take the DC input (solar), run it through an inverter > to > feed it to a UPS, to convert it to DC (to charge the batteries), to > convert back to AC to run to the power supply in the PC to convert > back to > various DC levels to use inside the machine. > > While AC->DC converters are ~90% efficient, DC -> AC inverters are > less > so, topping out around 70-80% efficiency. > > It seems like it should be possible to do a lot better. > > David Lang > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
