most of the appliances, tv's and such have switch mode power supplies that can take in a wide variety of voltages. they then rectify, chop up and transform to some higher voltage, transform and rectify to whatever voltage(s) their design calls for, so unless the incoming waveform is outside what they have designed to accept, they do a good job of making it work for their uses.
if i had an issue with flicker, i might consider strapping on an alternator, and a battery, and then feed a small inverter, large enough to cover my lighting and sensitive to flicker loads.
or i might use a step down transformer to bring the st head voltage down to something in the 12 or 24volt nominal range (rectified) and feed that into an inverter to output to my flicker sensitive loads.
another option would be to see if i could feed the st power into a ups such as an old apc unit, the output of which is steady clean pure sine wave that could certainly power any flicker sensitive loads.
all of these options have their level of complication, and their attendant loss of efficiency, but some are good enough to consider. taking a 10% hit in efficiency on relative light loads, such as lighting might not really be much to be concerned with? certainly less than taking the same 10% hit on heavier loads?
i mean i wouldn't think of trying to do such a system for motor loads, or resistive loads, that generally have no issues with flicker.
all this based on my wanting or having to use a single cylinder and st head,
if i were to design a unit based on the flicker issues, i might start with a clean sheet approach and maybe start out with a different approach to the problem all together.
bob g
