Our new house has an old, small inverter that is giving us problems.
Our "communications center"-2 internet phones, land phone, router, and DSL modem-are plugged into a 600w UPS that has always worked properly in our old house that had a larger name-brand Inverter.
Here, whenever the power goes out, the UPS switches over but the DSL modem loses the connection and has to be rebooted to go back online-and we lose the internet phones and internet. Sometimes the land phone (wireless) has to reboot.
The voltage fluctuations from the inverter can vary between 69-129 volts...in the matter of seconds.
I don't quite understand why the modem needs to be rebooted when the UPS ~seems~ to be working properly. In fairness to it, in 1.5 years it's had more work to do than most UPS's do in several lifetimes.
Additionally, I wonder about the "quality" of power the inverter is putting out. It makes considerable humming sounds...the lower the voltage (measured) the louder the hum.
I suspect I'll have to scrap the inverter and batteries for decent quality equipment. For ebing a "24 hour zone" per the Edenorte signs coming into Jarabacoa, we've sure been losing it a lot lately...
Any inverter/electrical guru's out there with any answers and/or suggestions.
Our "communications center"-2 internet phones, land phone, router, and DSL modem-are plugged into a 600w UPS that has always worked properly in our old house that had a larger name-brand Inverter.
Here, whenever the power goes out, the UPS switches over but the DSL modem loses the connection and has to be rebooted to go back online-and we lose the internet phones and internet. Sometimes the land phone (wireless) has to reboot.
The voltage fluctuations from the inverter can vary between 69-129 volts...in the matter of seconds.
I don't quite understand why the modem needs to be rebooted when the UPS ~seems~ to be working properly. In fairness to it, in 1.5 years it's had more work to do than most UPS's do in several lifetimes.
Additionally, I wonder about the "quality" of power the inverter is putting out. It makes considerable humming sounds...the lower the voltage (measured) the louder the hum.
I suspect I'll have to scrap the inverter and batteries for decent quality equipment. For ebing a "24 hour zone" per the Edenorte signs coming into Jarabacoa, we've sure been losing it a lot lately...
Any inverter/electrical guru's out there with any answers and/or suggestions.