David, I thought the complaint was not that the output was NOT a sine wave, but that the "precision" of the wave was somehow not that great. That might be that the amplitude varies, and in a non-predictable way? Not knowledgeable enough about generator function to be sure, but that's what it sounded like to me. That might account for the ability of the thing to drive a tool motor, but not to support electronics (which the battery charger, if it is recent, almost certainly contains). Make sense? David ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > At 06:24 PM 2/8/2010, Loren Busch wrote: > >I think you have already received the right answer: The modified sine wave > >coming out of the generator is not liked by your charger. > >A brief look what I could find seems to indicate that (if you have the > >generator I think you do) it has a special connection for charging > >batteries. If so, did you try that connection? > > Why should the output of a rotating generator be anything but a sine > wave? Does the generator have a low-voltage output which feeds an > inverter for 110v? > > Yours, > David |
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