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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 43111" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: I think I&#039;m digital desk cursed...I always thought it was silly to connect a 12V car battery to a UPS to up convert to 120V for a computer that was only going to drop it back down to 5V again. Of course you think UPS are quant... but in many parts of the world mains power is still less robust than today&#039;s Europe. Peavey had great success with the old CS800 because it would run all the way down to crazy low line voltages (80V or less) and keep on trucking... Down in south America they called the CS800 el burro (the mule). Trying to service the world market, was always a handful, with extremes of low and high mains voltages. Not to mention customers abusing the old 220/240 bump switches for a little extra power. I&#039;ve heard stories about countries in the middle east, where different sides of one street were alternately 220v or 240v. Oz was notorious for product killing high mains voltages, when they probably bumped it up a bunch higher at the sub-station to carry out over longer distance runs into the countryside. It&#039;s not easy being el burro... but the major manufacturers learned to deal with such things, that&#039;s how they became major manufacturers. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 43111, member: 126"] Re: I think I'm digital desk cursed... I always thought it was silly to connect a 12V car battery to a UPS to up convert to 120V for a computer that was only going to drop it back down to 5V again. Of course you think UPS are quant... but in many parts of the world mains power is still less robust than today's Europe. Peavey had great success with the old CS800 because it would run all the way down to crazy low line voltages (80V or less) and keep on trucking... Down in south America they called the CS800 el burro (the mule). Trying to service the world market, was always a handful, with extremes of low and high mains voltages. Not to mention customers abusing the old 220/240 bump switches for a little extra power. I've heard stories about countries in the middle east, where different sides of one street were alternately 220v or 240v. Oz was notorious for product killing high mains voltages, when they probably bumped it up a bunch higher at the sub-station to carry out over longer distance runs into the countryside. It's not easy being el burro... but the major manufacturers learned to deal with such things, that's how they became major manufacturers. JR [/QUOTE]

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