[PLUG] Power Conditioner

[Dick Steffens]

On 9/24/20 7:04 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Same here, your gen set may need a few minutes to stabilize
> but it should settle on 60Hz and since you do not have a large
> number of inductors and capacitors on the line it should be
> fairly clean.
>
> You can find multimeters that will measure low frequency signals
> and of course 60hz is down there.
>
> This page from Amazon brings up a nice selection of both multi-
> meters and even digital panel meters:
> https://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Meter/s?k=Frequency+Meter

Hopefully the meter on the generator will be good enough.

> Unless you have something weird in your gen set you should be
> getting pretty nice (probably better than PGE) sine waves out of
> your gen set.
>
> Of course there could be something wrong with the governor and
> it is not keeping tight control on the machine. The meter will tell
> you that as you cycle loads on and off of the machine.
>
> The stuff coming out of the wall socket can be pretty nasty. If you
> have worked with LF radio before particularly in industrial or large
> malls you should know what I am talking about. Some of the worse
> devices are fluorescent lamps, metal vapor lamps both low and
> high pressure, large rectifier stacks and other such goodies. You
> may have a few of the lamps on your home circuits but most likely
> none of the others. Computer PSU's can be noisy also as can any
> (Chinese) switching power supply.
>
> Check and stabilize the frequency, check and stabilize and do it
> again, make sure that the governor is responding fast enough to
> keep it stable.

On 9/24/20 7:08 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Ahh forgot the G/N bonding, in the industrial environments I
> worked in, we never saw that one it was caught prior to hotting
> up the circuit, but indeed home installations are a crap shoot.
>
> Indeed the home I bought where I now live was like that I had
> to make sure the G/N bond was solid as it looked more like an
> afterthought. Now it is a bazen thought...

Thanks for all the background info.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens