I know by using an auto stabiliser it can be solved.
The Yomin device pictured says "servo motor control voltage regulator". That suggests that it has something like a variac (variable auto-transformer) driven by a motor.
Figure 1. Servo-motor controlled variac.
This is probably overkill if you are moving to a location with a stable power supply with normal +/-10% tolerance. An adequately sized auto-transformer as shown in your second photo would be adequate. A related question, Step down transformer voltage between neutral and ground, came up today.
But if I were to use a regular 1000W step-down transformer, the frequency would be different right?
Correct. But it will be for the Yomin device too, judging by its front cover.
I'm not planning to use any inductive devices just the UPS. Will it heat up the device? or damage it?
It depends. If it were my equipment I would open it up and assess the situation as follows:
- Does it have a mains transformer running the UPS charger? If so there could be a bit of bother. Generally, transformers and motors will run hotter on 50 Hz (due to lamination thickness and eddy-currents).
- If it looks as though it is running a switched mode power-supply to charge the battery you might be OK. The problem in this instance is that the internal high-voltage DC derived from the mains only gets topped up every 10 ms half-cycle instead of every 8.33 ms on 60 Hz. The resulting additional voltage droop between half-cycles may cause the device to malfunction. On the other hand, it may work fine. The manufacturer may have designed it to work on 50/60 Hz but only tested it on 60.
... but didn't come across anyone mentioning about UPS or power electronic devices much.
Most aren't sensitive as they rectify to DC internally.
In the figure, I've used only the transformer not the stabiliser like my original setup I'm planning to use.
The figure is fine other than we would normally draw power flow from left to right. i.e., Power source on the left.
See http://www.armory.com/~stacey/frequency-50.html for more information. (I gave it a very quick scan and it looks OK.)
I thought this kind of function would require additional circuitry to extract the extra incoming power, but from what I've read, it sounds like there are some inverter designs that inherently have this capability.
Yes, As long as the voltage criteria are satisfied a mosfet will happily allow current flow in either direction. So it's not difficult to design an inverter that can feed power in both directions. Indeed APC made some UPSes which they called "delta conversion" that explicitly exploited this, the battery bank was connected to the output through a single converter, then a separate "delta converter" was used to push power from the input side of the UPS to the output side.
Having said that though, the devil is in the details. I would not connect a grid-tie inverter to the output of a UPS that was not explicitly designed to support it. I would be concerned about the potential for bad interactions between the control systems of the two converters, and about the possibility for excessive voltages on the DC bus of the UPS.
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SHORT ANSWER: YES! Also be careful handling the circuit board even when its not plugged in. The capacitors can shock you!
I would bet that the small transformer is there for the small electronics that control the annoying speaker you removed (step down transformer) and the big one is simply for safety and is for the inverter. (Isolation transformer)
LONGER ANSWER: 120 VAC from any wall socket alone will shock you and can kill you. Although there is the debate of "volt vs amps" being more lethal, its known that amperages between .1 and .2 amps (100 or 200 mili-amps) will kill you. That UPS is can put out a whole 2.5 amps which is roughly 100 times more than the lethal amount
Formula: power = (voltage * amperage)...
so solving for amperage is...
Amperage =( 300 watts / 120volts ) which is 2.5 amps
The big tansformer is probably an isolation transformer. Its there to keep you from drawing more than 2.5 amps in case of a short. the little one is there to get the voltage down to something suitable for a voltage regulator to manage for the logic circuits that control the UPS. (5 volts maybe)