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There are server power supplies that won't work on non-sinusoidal power sources. (read: cheap UPSs) I learned that the hard way.
by krunck 2y ago
There are server power supplies that won't work on non-sinusoidal power sources. (read: cheap UPSs) I learned that the hard way.
- namibj 2y agoUse one that has the "240VDC (China only)" rating, and feed them proper DC. Or get the modern western ~300V DC input ones, there's no good (technical) reason to feed AC from a non-grid-tie inverter to a SMPS-only circuit. The DC can be quite passive, just switched in via a relay and anti-reverse-current-diode together with bridge-rectified mains, she otherwise just bare battery bank voltage There's a reason modern data centers use that style of setup (except with a central power factor correcting rectifier, not a plain bridge rectifier, and often hanging the batteries on it directly using controlled rectifier output voltage to control battery charging).