UPSes - MinuteMan, others?
Mike Medai
mikemedai at netscape.net
Thu Aug 10 17:44:01 EDT 2006
dragonhawk at gmail.com wrote:
> You definitely take an efficiency hit. However, in this case
> (extremely dirty power and extremely expensive and sensitive
> equipment), I believe we don't have much choice. We need something
> that can handle frequent severe sags as well as all sorts of
> distortions. A stand-by UPS will be tripping on and off battery all
> day long, and be dead within a month or two. That's inefficient, too.
> :-)
>
> -- Ben
> _______________________________________________
What you might be looking for is a "line conditioner". We've used these
before where our supply current/voltage was having difficulties
maintaining a nominal value (in a calibration laboratory) and we needed
a nice stable line voltage.
Tripp Lite also makes these:
http://www.tripplite.com/products/conditioners/index.cfm
Hth ..
Mike
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