I was just thinking the other day about running my desktop in my pickup truck so i could play mp3's and stuff like that. i have one of those power inverters that put out a modified sine wave at 115 ...

Outback Power’s Radian inverter/charger can be used with both grid-interactive and off-grid power applications. Fig. 1 shows the power inputs and outputs associated with the Radian inverter/charger.

It’s always great to receive reader submissions for Made By Monkeys, so thanks to Mike Meakin for flagging this one – a blog post which details “a shining (and smoking!) example of poor engineering!”, ...