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NV power conditioners, such as the units aged to extract the two engorged, by Furnman (starting about $150) — oozing 12V 7 AH gel batteries. As add linear filtering to eliminate RF you can see in the photo, both noise from the power, a real-time batteries had burst. Despite the voltmeter, sub-ns response time, and touted “intelligence” of the unit, over-voltage protection. there was apparently no thermal cut- The second method of assuring off. So much for set it and forget it. “clean” power is to use an uninter- I no longer leave home without ruptable power supply (UPS) — a turning off my new UPS. You might battery-powered DC-to-AC converter consider doing the same — or with voltage sensing capabilities. A developing an independent thermal basic UPS senses when the line WWW.GiURUMELE.Hi2.RO voltage falls below, say, 105 VAC, and within a few ms fires up the DC- to-AC converter and switches the loadWWW.RADiOSCAMATORUL.Hi2.RO to the converter. 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This summer, upon returning home after a week away, I detected the unmistakable odor of burning insulation in my workshop.
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