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Old April 11th 08, 09:09 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]
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Dylan Smith wrote in
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On 2008-04-11,
wrote:
These are true sine wave inverters, are quite efficient, regulated,
and phase synchronized to the grid so switchover is transparent.


You can also get small UPSs with decent inverters, and they aren't
overly expensive.

But all this misses the point, the point was Jay believed it was
impossible to get 110vac with current technology, which is
demonstrably untrue (and has been untrue for decades).


Many many decades. About 14 of them, to be precise. Inverters were
commonplace on large aircraft even in the 1930s and on ships before that.
These were all motor T/Rs, of course.
And ol Nikola Tesla would have been lost without them....



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