Re: UPS powered coil?

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alan,

Yes!  It is thermal circuit breakered at 10 amps and could probably run a
300 watt coil for 10+ running minutes easily.  When it is unplugged it is
just a little 120VAC power source till the internal sealed lead acid
battery runs down.  Probably not a big deal to run it off a bigger battery
if one wanted to.  It is very small (but heavy!!) so it could easily travel
with the coil.  Parties, picnics, boating, camping, stuck on the freeway...
 You get the idea... ;-))  They are super cool things and mass production
really has them down to a darn good price.

Cheers,

	Terry



At 10:49 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Terry
>    are you talking about plugging the coil into it and using that that as a 
>"battery" for short bursts?
>-Alan
>
>
>In a message dated 11/14/00 7:44:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
><< Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>    As part of my home web server project and at the strong recommendation of
> several people, I got one of those 500VA APC uninterruptable power supply
> boxes to run my server, DSL, and Eithernet hub boxes.  They all said it
> would stop a ton of odd problems with 24/7 systems...  But I thought of an
> additional problem for it ;-)))
> 
> Now, I really can't help being tempted to run a truly go anywhere coil with
> the little UPS box (like my small LTR coil).  I guess it has protection out
> the wazzu, but if anyone knows of a reason it may blowup with a coil
> connected to it I would like to know... ;-)))  It has step simulated AC
> output which should do OK with a variac and a "little line noise".  I worry
> about PFC correction (over correction) caps and such.  At $130 buck a pop,
> I would hate to fry it but the temptation is overwhelming to give it a try
> and see what happens ;-)))
> 
> Cheers
> 
>    Terry - Always on the bleeding edge ;-)) >>
>