[Elecraft] OT: Whole House Generator

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

I suspect a fair number of us are interested, as long as we can keep to 
the (reasonable) OT limits.

Friends have Generac units, not "low distortion" and report good results.

Since most of the ham gear I've owned takes 110v, rectifies, filters and 
regulates it, I'm not sure we need to worry about distortion.

The exception is your basic uninterruptible power supply that senses 
distortion and thinks it's a sign of an upcoming outage.

73 -- Lynn

On 9/7/2017 1:15 PM, Doug Hensley wrote:
> If you want to respond to this, please respond privately to me and NOT the list.
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> I am going through the process of choosing a whole house home generator and what caught my ey in the process was a new generator by GENERAC called "Syntergy" which uses a new three-vein generator and produces a relatively clean sine wave.  So clean, GENERAC claims less than 1% harmonic distortion, a level virtually undetectable to the user.
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> Has anyone studied this unit and made any conclusions about it?  Their standard unit produces a minimum of 10% harmonic distortion and they warn some communications services might become unuseable.
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> Again, respond to me privately:  <<  w5jv @ hotmail.com  >>.
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> Thank you,
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> Doug W5JV
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