On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:22:24 GMT, Ignoramus22022
wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:13:58 GMT, Bruce L Bergman wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:55:29 -0800, "Bob Headrick" wrote:
"Highland Ham" wrote:
Bob , Interesting info ; can you confirm that the 18 pcs 12V battery were
in fact 9 strings of 2 batts in series (each string having a fuse )
providing 24 V ? or were all the 18 batts in parallel ?
Actually they were all in series, making it a bit nerve-wracking to replace a
battery in the string.
216 volt battery pack??? I don't think so.
No, quite possible and makes some design sense - they would not need
a heavy output transformer in the unit boosting the voltage of a 36V
or 48V battery string after converting it to a sine wave AC, as 216V
would be right around the sine wave peak voltage of 120VAC. Just run
the battery DC through two sets of power transistors to let through a
reconstituted sine wave - one for the positive half of the output
waveform, the other negative.
And it cuts the current the transistors have to pass.
Bruce, this also sounds like a simple approach to generating 3 phase
out of DC. Without the noise and weight of rotary phase
converters. What are your thoughts on that?
Quite Plausible, but when you add the caveat of reproducing 3-Phase
power the engineering just got really complicated, and more than
likely rather expensive. And I'm NOT a high-powered electronics drive
wonk by any means, the best I could do for fixing them is look for the
obviously crispy components and swap out the blown boards - or swap
the crispy parts and diodes that fail a VOM test and see if that does
it.
With a single phase inverter, they're just doing a push-pull on one
240V lead, relative to the center tapped neutral. When you try
3-phase, there's going to be constant voltage, current and capacitance
interaction between all three sets of "hot AC" switching transistors
(or Triacs, or whatever). And the load's resistive, inductive and
capacitive components are all going to come into play.
The resulting inverter would need to be built rather robust, and be
able to overcome drive issues with brute force where finesse won't do.
Compared to that, RPC's are the KISS method. And RPC's aren't a bad
way to go, if they are well balanced and have cooling air you can tuck
them away in a closet.
-- Bruce --
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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
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