wimpie007
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(As posted earlier in my build thread)
An issue I'm having is the quality of the power signal that is generated by the PIP5048-GK. I've had LED lights in most of the house for a while now, but the Filament LED's that I have give a lot of flickering. It also happens with halogen bulbs, yet other LED's with some built-in electronics seems to have little to no issues.
I didn't give much attention to it when buying the inverter, but could it be that the PIP5048-GK being a PF 1.0 unit is giving me issues?
I think I have most settings right, though I could change the mode from UPS to appliance (it just seems more logical to have it in UPS, so there's no power interuption?)
To give you an idea of the loads currently connected:
- almost all indoor lighting, mostly LED or Halogen behind dimmers. Consumption ranging from a few W to 150W.
- 1 server @ 180 W, 1 pc monitoring the PIP inverter and Batrium setup @ 65 W and my own desktop @ 150W.
- central ventilation unit @ 40W
- TV set and digital TV box @ 20W idle, 200W load.
- some small standby consumption like alarm clocks, phone chargers, etc...
Total load sits between 400 and 600 Watt for most of the day (the VA apparent power sitting a little higher at 450 - 700 VA).
When measuring the frequency with a multimeter, I noticed it's giving me all sorts of readings but not 50 Hz.
Is the inverter part simply not good enough?
An issue I'm having is the quality of the power signal that is generated by the PIP5048-GK. I've had LED lights in most of the house for a while now, but the Filament LED's that I have give a lot of flickering. It also happens with halogen bulbs, yet other LED's with some built-in electronics seems to have little to no issues.
I didn't give much attention to it when buying the inverter, but could it be that the PIP5048-GK being a PF 1.0 unit is giving me issues?
I think I have most settings right, though I could change the mode from UPS to appliance (it just seems more logical to have it in UPS, so there's no power interuption?)
To give you an idea of the loads currently connected:
- almost all indoor lighting, mostly LED or Halogen behind dimmers. Consumption ranging from a few W to 150W.
- 1 server @ 180 W, 1 pc monitoring the PIP inverter and Batrium setup @ 65 W and my own desktop @ 150W.
- central ventilation unit @ 40W
- TV set and digital TV box @ 20W idle, 200W load.
- some small standby consumption like alarm clocks, phone chargers, etc...
Total load sits between 400 and 600 Watt for most of the day (the VA apparent power sitting a little higher at 450 - 700 VA).
When measuring the frequency with a multimeter, I noticed it's giving me all sorts of readings but not 50 Hz.
Is the inverter part simply not good enough?