While I was willing to let it lie, it seems you want to continue the
discussion.
You accuse me of playing with "Semantics". Of course I'm playing with
semantics. After all we are discussing the meaning of words. It begs the
question of whether you know the meaning of the word "Semantics". So to
set the rules, as it were...
Semantics;
noun: The study of language meaning
adj: Of or relating to the study of meaning and changes of meaning;
"semantic analysis"
Please note the adjective.
MSW in the context of inverters and home power systems means "Modified
Square Wave".
You are incorrect to bring your linguistic baggage from a different
industry. It may well be that the definition you are so fond of is
correct in electronics, but the context is inverters.
I suspect that you also suffer from the need to use a name that sounds
more impressive. This is a common trait among tinkerers. People who do
not have the expertise love to use jargon to appear more knowledgeable
on a subject than they are.
Modified Square Wave is just not as impressive as as Modified Sine Wave.
If you were to take two identical inverters, paint one white and the
other black, label one as a modified square wave and the other modified
sine wave, price the modified sine wave at $10 more, posers like you
will always buy the one labeled modified sine wave.
Why?
So they can pretend that they bought the more technologically advanced
product.
When they are asked about their system they say, "Oh yes, my inverter is
a mumble mumble sine wave inverter".
Semantics? Hell yes.
If the inverter you bought was a called a "Modified Sine Wave" inverter
then the seller was lying and trying to make you believe that the
product he was selling you was better than it really is.
In twenty years of using, living with, designing and installing solar
power, I have seen all the lies, half truths and cons there are.
You can call your inverter what you want, but if it is as a MSW inverter
you are only fooling yourself if you think it is a sine wave inverter.
END.
Solar said:
George, you are only playing with semantics.
Now read this, for **** sakes.
MSW is a term to describe the waveshape, not the technique used to
create the wave. This is what the manufacturers decided to call it and
thereby "coined" the definition. You do not have anything to say about
this or any imput on the matter. You may not like it, and probably,
nobody else here does either, but this is the waveform description as
defined.
Many, don't like you being called an "aussie" but they cannot change
that, right or wrong.