Date:         Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:33:52 -0700
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         ddes@anet-dfw.com (David Schwarze)
Subject:      Re: 87 Vanagon: 3rd choice for gauge

At 1:23 AM 6/1/96, john wakefield wrote:

>  How many of you have elected to run a second "coach" battery, isolated
>with the standard diode/heat sink package sold at RV centers?  Three
>potential locations are the two wells behind the front seats, and the
>large cavity to the right of the motor compartment.  I have an inverter
>ready to pop in, but it's wave shape has nasy vertical walls.  I didn't
>know that when I bought it, and running electronics with it may be a
>marginal case.  Any inverter equiped Westys?

I have an inverter.  It is touted as "modified sine wave" but I think it is
only a 2 or 3-step square wave inverter.  It runs most appliances pretty
well, but I also have some concerns about the wave form.  My question is
thus:  Does anyone know if one of those "line conditioners" would "smooth
out" the wave, so to speak?  Could one just install a line conditioner
inline with a square wave inverter and get smooth sine-wave current out?
Or would the waveform not be better than what went in?  Isn't that the line
conditioner's purpose?  I'm tempted to try it, but I suspect if it was that
easy it would have already been done in the inverter itself.  Comments?

-David

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David Schwarze                   '73 VW Safare Custom Camper       (Da Boat)
Dallas, Texas, USA               '73 Capri GT 2800                (Da Beast)
e-mail: ddes@anet-dfw.com        '87 Mustang Lx 5.0          (13.986@100.81)
http://www.anet-dfw.com/~ddes    '93 Weber WG-50                  (Da Piano)
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