I think I'm just going to tie all the clothes together and dangle
them in a stream.
....but seriously, an evaulation service to label electronics and
appliances "home generated power friendly" would be great, kind of
the "Underwriters Labs" of home power.
I would imagine that the manuafcturer who thinks far enough ahead and
makes the appliances compatible with home generated power will get
the greatest market share in the future. It's also a really good
P.R. move.

Phillip


--- In Beyond_cheap_fuel@..., "laurence200857"
<laurence.wilkins@...> wrote:
>
> Well, here's one idea. Let's forget about the whole electricity
thing
> and stick big wind turbine blade set directly on the washing
machine drum!
>
> But seriously folks... I can see this being an issue for lots of
> electronic loads in any poorly regulated system. The intermittent
> nature of wind, and the startup delays of diesel generators mean
that
> you need something in between to fill the (time) gaps. The classic,
> but hardly cheap, approach would be a bank of batteries which are
> inverted up to AC mains, with the generator(s) charging those.
>
> A possible alternative is a bit of surgery directly within the
> appliance. It would not be beyond the wit of (this) man to build a
> small battery power supply into the controlling unit of a washing
> machine. Its task is merely to keep the controller powered, not the
> whole machine. However, this will be a different solution for each
> machine, and will of course blow any guarantees out of the water.
>
> Sadly, because this would add even a relatively small cost to every
> machine, I doubt you'll find the major manufacturers interested in
> tackling the problem, until such time as alternative and maybe less
> reliable power sources become the norm.
>