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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1305: DIY Battery by Paul S on 2014-06-04 
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It surprises me if you wish to do away with the battery. Or, perhaps a unit could be offered "less battery", which the purchaser/user could add on his/her own. This would "solve" the logistical problems (and the expense) of shchlepping batteries, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #639: Solar power by Jorge on 2010-12-11 
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I talked for a couple of hours today with a local Solar Power technician,  I sort of told him all the gear I have that would need to run on batteries and we got a shaky number; from that number he started calculating a bunch of panels and batteries a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #640: Mother of tone by Amir on 2010-12-11 
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[quote user="Jorge"]This is very interesting;http://www.mother-of-tone.com/index.htm[/quote]he use 12V car battery and it seems he like car battery for his low power amplifier.This site has good ideas about sound, i never experienced his solutions bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #620: But it sounds good from the battery... by AOK_Farmer on 2010-12-07 
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Hey Bud,Are you saying that the battery materials are less limited in fast dynamic potential energy release than the capacitor materials? I thought batteries had far greater materials limitations compared to capacitors in regards to fast potential re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #486: When are batteries good? by drdna on 2010-03-21 
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[quote user="oxric"]I fail to see the utility, as I have always done, of opinions, approaches or theories which make some dogmatic assumption based on limited experience with the said device. So for your opinion, which seems to deny that the Living V...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #601: Battery output and AC driven output shall be identical. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-03 
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[quote user="manisandher"] …. the PP2000s battery output is clearly superior to its regenerator output… [/quote] And if it is true then the PurePower people did already fuck up their own product.  The battery output and output from AC SHALL BE...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: The amplifier's power supply by Paul S on 2007-12-04 
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Peter, I wish I had more confidence in the amp's power supply as significant proof against the full range of AC power nasties.  In fact, I have long had the sense that there is such a thing as "over-regulation" where hi-fi power suppli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #732: Maybe my unit is performing correctly by Lx_ on 2011-01-20 
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Those recent posts of yours are making me wonder whether my PP2000 unit is really faulty, as PurePower acknowledged on this very forum. After all, you are starting to recognize that PP is sensitive to incoming electricity in your own units. This make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1720: Agree with adrian by steverino on 2020-11-07 
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Strange hums in odd places do  often correlate with an internal PP fault. One time before the battery started to fail I got a strange hum through my SACD player. Never happened before. Later after the PP battery was replaced hum disappeared forever....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: My field coil driver by audiofilofine on 2010-02-27 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  haralanov wrote:And the very same is with electromagnets. With those so widely used 12V power supplies (Fertin, Feastrex for instance) the sound is always softer than it should be in reality with severally restricted dy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: Looking for a good external Power Supply by Amir on 2017-04-27 
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I am looking for a good external power supply for ATX motherboard and Sotm pci to usb card.i need 12v, 3.3v , 5v, -12v , 9vsometimes i think if i use CEC TL0-X power supply it may help but i did not measured it's output voltage.CEC TL0-X has 4 transf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tree motors from one side? Buttery operated? by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-21 
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There is TT out there: Raven Black Night http://www.tw-acustic.de/engl/turntables/raven-black-night/index.html that has: “3 motors arranged in an arrow formation, pointing towards the platter. Drive belt is guided through the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #481: The single "silver bullet" proposition, backed by some serio... by oxric on 2010-03-20 
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[quote user="drdna"]I think it has already been stated. Batteries in audio are inherently of limited utility. It is a tendency of audiophiles to dedicate themselves to a single "silver bullet" instead of building the system based on the particular ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #625: Akela missed his kill, doesn’t he, Paul? by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-08 
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[quote user="Paul S"]Yes, Bud, I agree that the most common problem for the full-tilt regenerators is that they begin to exhibit various problems in direct proportion to current demands.  And this seems to be true even when they are used "below capac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #626: PP2000 vs. pure batteries – that would be VERY interesting. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-08 
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[quote user="AOK_Farmer"] I am ready for a subwoofer sized battery pack by the house electrical service feeding the audio dedicated lines. Whats wrong with this solution? It doesn't exist yet? Heck, $15k in the grand scheme of things...[/quote] Steve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #627: Battery --> 60Hz 120V rms converter --> dedicated lines by AOK_Farmer on 2010-12-08 
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I meant this scheme. Have the converter start at 105v when turned on and increase to 120v as a nice soft start for the tubes perhaps. Anything is possible with such a set up. I do think that audio is/will benefit greatly from all the technological pu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #645: A clue by AOK_Farmer on 2010-12-11 
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"but it highly likely that PurePower buttery does stay online during the unit run from AC"That's all I am saying also! My idea is ONLY that PP changed the degree to which the equipment *sees* the AC source instead of the battery source. How isolate...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #510: Slop Factor by Paul S on 2010-04-24 
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Bill, what I find interesting is not the fact that the units vary one from the other in terms of measured performance, or each in its (in)ability to charge its own battery, rather I notice that you seem "happy" with the performance of all the units i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #545: The Mysteries of AC/DC/AC by Paul S on 2010-06-04 
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Romy, you may have seen my meandering post a couple of pages back, where I took a "theoretical" approach to using batteries, and it promptly got out of hand from a purely practical point of view, to say the least. In the case of the "Giant Battery Pa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #414: Red Wine DC Supply by TonyB on 2009-12-03 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A 6moon-level company from Connecticut - Red Wine has own solution – to power from low-voltage DCSo, they claim that their buttery might release current being charged at the same time and it will not have any impact to s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #734: It is hard and simple to say. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-20 
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[quote user="Lx_"]Those recent posts of yours are making me wonder whether my PP2000 unit is really faulty, as PurePower acknowledged on this very forum. After all, you are starting to recognize that PP is sensitive to incoming electricity in you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #706: I was talking about Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-07 
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[quote user="manisandher"]  Romy the Cat wrote:The change of the voltage from battery and from AC always was there, I have seen it on all PurePower Units but I did not even report it as I find it absolutely irrelevant.Romy, you've said in the past:...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #906: To shunt or not to shunt. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-11 
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I kind of thinking about it and I am not sure that I have an opinion. In the former PP2000 I stunted buttery with over 100K capacitors, presuming that it will driver DCR of buttery lower and therefore improve the day-to-day decoupling of PP2000 from ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1310: If Battery, then DIY Battery by Paul S on 2014-06-04 
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I guess I needed to say that, outright. Of course I do care about seamless power during line lapses, but not much. I mainly see the battery as a "treated", high-current DC reservoir/source for converting to laundered AC. And, like I have said many...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #928: Which Parts are the Good Parts? by Paul S on 2011-12-03 
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Decoud, this is a delayed response to your most recent post in this thread (posted 11-14-11): Indeed, why is it "beneficial" to add DC/AC to a battery only to rectify it again? This has never made sense to me, except with my fuzzy "theory" that the P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1068: Loch Ness Monster and PurePower. by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-19 
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[quote user="manisandher"]Well let's just say that I find the retailer's version of events difficult to believe. It would be just amazing if something pierced the (quite hefty) packing material and the metal underside of the power supply casing... an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What Is The Minimum for an "Acceptable" Phono Stage? by Paul S on 2013-03-01 
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For some time I have felt that most audiophile phono stages are over-built, especially those pretending to be thought-out, "no-compromise" designs.  Ironically, it seems to me that few (or none) of the "thought-out" designs I have seen and/or heard a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1864: Voltage vs. Current by Paul S on 2022-09-15 
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Rick, sure, working volltage is important. What does your inverter require in the way of current in order to produce it's rated voltage at its rated current? I can remember times when I measured "correct" voltage when the battery was functionally use...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1844: More ground by rickmcinnis on 2022-08-16 
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Thanks for the spacing tip. At this point the only part of the inverter attached to the house is through the ground - and that is using a plug for just the ground lead into a close-by receptacle.My main amplifiers (tri-amplified system) are utilizing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: The high voltage remedy? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-26 
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[quote user="haralanov"]And the very same is with electromagnets. With those so widely used 12V power supplies (Fertin, Feastrex for instance) the sound is always softer than it should be in reality with severally restricted dynamics and transien...
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