A lot of consumer grade electronics run fine on basic inverters -not
sine wave types. Like charging your laptop of a cigarette-lighter type
unit.
I have also run dozens of cheap chinese
LED pars off of a 2000W basic
unit in an RV and on parade
floats and no problems (other than individual
LED's failing, but they do that on normal shore-power too -what do you expect for a $15 dollar
unit!)
Anyways my question is, has anyone scoped the waveforms under non-filament load of a modern (modular
ETC/
Colortran/
Strand etc..) and compared it to the waveform of the basic consumer-grade inverter like you can buy at truck stops?
Would their be a product or DIY
circuit design you could implement to place between "
dimmer parked @ 100" and "product you wish to
power" to
restore it closer to what you would get out of an inverter (if not to a "clean"
sinusoidal shape)
Of course the question being cost as well as not damaging or overloading the
dimmer itself.
But for someone who tours frequently in less-than-adequetly staffed (and often run-down) facilities it sure would be nice to
power our augmented
LED's off the
house AP's without having to run 150' of #10
thru catwalks and box-booms to get to our on-stage
distro!