Generators and switch mode power supplies

Fair enough. It might help then if you tell us what things you might need to keep powered during a black-out. You've already mentioned the computer as an example, what else? How long and frequent are your typical power-outs? How long do you want a generator to last? Maybe a UPS solution is better suited to your needs?

Always more than one way to skin a cat. Take your computer for example, laptops draw much less power than desktops, and can handle black-outs of several hours no problems. Add a small UPS to keep a modem and some other stuff going and you are still in business. I was happily surfing the web and doing work on my phone while I was stuck in the lift the other week for example.

Dave.

I asked a very specific question in relation to the tolerance of split mode power supplies to variations in input waveform. That's all I asked.

Sylvia.

I'm really thick and also my troll filters have blocked out a lot of recent discussions.

Can someone please tell me what a 'split mode' power supply is? I'd never heard the term before, and a Google search mainly brings up the newsgroup threads where they keep getting talked about.

Thanks.

plonk

I once saw an excavator made by Hitachi or someone similar that was made to drive through a standard 80 cm doorway and was used in Japan mainly in office blocks where it could ride the elevators. One of those and a pair of ducted extractor fans would be kind of handy. I've just shifted

30 odd cu M but it was easy sandy stuff outdoors and replaced it with 35 tonnes of cement, and I was glad to hire a guy to excavate for $300.

I believe it's a typo, she said "switch mode" in her first post.

Dave.

weakling

De-plonk.... it took a while to work out what your comment meant and I suspect you might be correct. :-)

She has that effect. all of us get accused at some stage but saliva is a certainty as you will see.

What was the question again :)

Though I did use the expression "split mode" in the subject of another thread. No one commented then, but its's true that it doesn't seem to be a recognised alternative wording. Put it down to my aging brain cells.

Sylvia.

**As an old mate, of Italian descent used to say:

"We came, we saw, we concreted."

--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

There's a big Italian concretor community up this way, that's a very appropriate saying.

Now all I have to do is get the blockwork up and the three phase connected.

Good luck getting a good cabler this time of year let alone a sparky who even bothers to show up

An Italian neighbour ws discussing my pruning of the orange trees and gave me his advice about what to do to help them recover from the heavy pruning brought on by rampant bug infestation.

It basically involved heavy fertilising with compost then mulching all withn a foot around the trunk.

After he left I explained to chief gardener that his advice wasn't that useful. He did is that way because they all grew their citrus, figs, etc tree in little holes in the concrete wasteland that is usual in italian backyards. I was just going to stick to putting the mulch around the drip line about 4' & 5' out from the trunk as suit3ed our trees.

Already sorted, and the labour is free too.

who's sister are you doing ?

Best fertiliser for citrus is cats. Dripline is fine.

Unfortunately some around here insists they be taken for a humane death.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Humane death -> burial beneath citrus