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- From: amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves)
- Subject: Re: Why not 120 VDC ? Why invert?
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- References: <1993Jan23.000753.14523@michael.apple.com> <1993Jan23.061702.18014@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:56:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.061702.18014@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rod Anderson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan23.000753.14523@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- >>It seems like an incredibly stupid question to me, but I've got
- >>to ask it ...
- >>
- >>Pondering this ... Why not just use a 120 VDC battery pack and use
- >>120 VDC for a bunch of stuff? Lightbulbs don't care if they are
- >>AC or DC, nor do electric stoves and ovens or other resistive heat
- >>sources. Some tools have AC/DC motors. 120 VDC was a common motor
- >>type not too long ago, so I'd expect some motors to be available
- >>for things like house fans.
- >>
- >If you use a 12 volt system you can start out with one set of batteries
- >and add capacity in parallel. If you are on 120 volts dc you have 10
- >times the number of cells. The initial cost for a 120 volt system will be
- >much higher.
-
- In addition, there will be ten times the number of cells in series. Any one
- cell failure can ruin a bank. Ideally all cells in a series bank should be
- of equal age and capacity. Personally, if there weren't this little
- resistance problem I'd rather have everything be 2 volt (or 1.2 volt)
- and run the world on very low voltage. There'd be no electrocution.
- But since R rears it's head this isn't practical. It's really not
- much of a problem since high efficiency inverters have become
- available. BTW, some larger set ups *do* run 120VDC and use a
- specially designed inverter to convert to AC.
-
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