Trace/Frig. [RE-wrenches]

[Richard Perez, Home Power magazine]

<x-flowed>Gee guys,

I know that the mod sines are efficient and cheap, but they are also 
finicky, hard to live with, and have destroyed a number of 
appliances. Maybe it's time for Wrenches to try selling their 
customers sine wave models. I know they cost more. I know that they 
are less efficient. But the customers are happier. I've never met an 
electric motor which didn't prefer sine wave over mod sine, same with 
computer gear.

Richard

>Greetings Sharkey,
>
>Actually the problem with this frig is not a Trace wake up problem, but I'll
>offer another example that can be frustrating for some Trace owners.  With
>some computers (IBM in my experiences), it is necessary to boot the Trace
>prior to turning on the PC.  Lots of stuff happening in the first second or
>two that a PC is turned on and the Trace isn't giving it clean power yet.
>This can make for  intermittent strange things with the PC and until you
>know what's going on, it can leave you scratchin' your head.  My personal PC
>ends up booted without the keyboard working.  I just turn a light on
>momentairly prior to switching on the PC.
>
>Kurt
>
>At 10:39 AM 3/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
>  >
>  >	Hi Kurt;
>  >
>  >	Don't know if this is related, but I had some problems with a Trace 812
>  >waking up when a load that used an SCR controller was connected while it
>  >was asleep. My solution was to sent the Trace an 'on' command via the
>  >remote port when I wanted to wake it up to power the load. Perhaps the
>  >U2512 is having a similar problem? You didn't mention whether the U2512was
>  >in the sleep mode when this happens, but your reference to an incandescent
>  >light makes me wonder?
>  >
>  >	-S
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