I wanted to share this opinion on Hackaday about a topic that is the usefulness of a something that has become ubiquitous relatively fast.

This techonolgyy has a lot of potential, what do you think?

  • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    But different devices need different voltages. Does every outlet in my house have to have its own connection to the central rectifier? It’s a lot of re wiring.

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      11 months ago

      PWM DC to DC dropping voltage to what you need is easy/cheep.

      So instead of a big transformer + rectifier that each device has now, it would be a much smaller/cheaper step down at like 99.8% efficiency

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          11 months ago

          Well, I mean if you don’t understand power electronics I don’t see how you can make that statement.

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            11 months ago

            I understand the electronics. I don’t understand why you think this would be worth replacing all my appliances