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To: d:oug who wrote (12242)	11/10/1999 6:35:00 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 14226

A smart Y2K emergency power source. Turn your battery into AC outlets. dougak - I'am low key for Y2K computer bug trouble. All I plan on doing is have a weeks supply of can goods like beans for food and heat, and a supply of those Poland 2.5 gallon water containers. Things that everyone should already have, like candles and matches should already be there. As for the electrical power to go out, this I think will be likely to happen, but I expect the lenght of time to be short as in hours, but if so then I decided to cover this item only because I wish to be able to view TV and get live pictures updates of other areas in the world that are having big(er) problems. As for the TV stations to have power under the conditions that the grid from the source is disrupted, all I can do is hope at least one is not in that path. But anyway I decided not to buy a cheap battery powered TV but buy the following. (1) rechargeable battery used to jump/start a car that has a battery that don't have enought juice. Also useful in very low temperature conditions where this house temperature battery helps a cold one. $35 (2) DC to AC inverter, 100 watts to power a small TV. $35 (3) ... just a reminder, fill bathtub full with water incase the power lost causes a pressure lost, and you can then use it to either fill up the tank above the tolit seat, or better, fill it up only 1/4 to 3/4 to just "do" the flush. (4) Did I forget anything ? beer, bullets, ??? DC/AC power interver is an electronic device that converts DC power from a battery (mostly 12 VDC) to standard household AC power (110VAC). From 50 watts all the way up to 3,000 watts inverter. Most inverters are installed and used in conjunction with a battery bank. Batteries are the heart of an inverter-powered electrical system, storing power for use on demand. The most basic way to draw electrical power from a battery is direct current (DC) at the nominal voltage of the battery. Your car radio, for example, uses 12 volts DC (12Vdc), the same voltage as your car battery. An inverter is a device that converts battery power (DC) into alternating current (AC) of a higher voltage. DC-to-AC inverters have been around for a long time. Energy loss in this conversion process at first was very high: the average efficiency of early inverters hovered around 60%. You would have to draw 100 watts of battery power to run a 60-watt bulb. A new way to build inverters was introduced in the early 1980s. These fully solid state inverters boosted efficiency to 90%. ... circuitry to convert the batteries' DC voltage 12 into AC. The resulting low voltage AC is then transformed into a higher voltage... ... conversion to AC and waveform shaping takes place on the low voltage side of the transformer.