TV needs sinewave [RE-wrenches]

[Chuck Heath]

<x-flowed>PV Pioneer Steve Willey and his supportive wife Elizabeth wrote....
>For the first time ever a customer came in with a new TV that would NOT
>operate without true sinewave power.  It is a Philips/Magnavox from
>Wal-Mart, about a 23 inch.  We tried it on Powerstar and Trace and several
>models of smaller units and it simply would not turn on. Exeltech and
>Prosine ran it fine as well as SW2512.  Maybe that will save someone else
>the fear that I had at first try,  that perhaps I had blown the TV.

Steve - when you say:
>We tried it on Powerstar and Trace and several
>models of smaller units and it simply would not turn on.
Should I assume you mean the SW-4024 and 24v. Powerstar models, or some
other flavor? What were the Exeltech and Prosine models that did work?

Seems odd that it would not work on one Trace but did with a Trace SW2512.

Cordially, Chuck Heath, from my tiny mountaintop cabin powered by
sunshine, where "our local park" is called Yosemite. sunpwr at jps.net
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