Anybody fell into DC power in home meme?
Was it worth it? How are your installations organised?
How are your PCs powered?
Anybody fell into DC power in home meme?
Ryan Evans
Samuel Price
realistically impossible.
Luke Bailey
Why would anyone do that?
Andrew Davis
There are people who do it tho
Bcoz most consumer electronics and a lot of other stuff (like LED lamps) run on DC internally. And 1 big converter with many end devices has less losses in power than a lot of devices each with its own power brick.
Also UPSs work with virtually no losses in that config
Gabriel Reed
>not knowing about wireless chargers
Tesla has always the last say.
John Edwards
Are they powered directly from 120v/230v AC? Or thru a AC-DC power brick?
I know Tesla is a winner. But on short distances I don't think I need to use AC when not necessary.
Solar panels produce DC and, if I recall correctly, wind turbines do too. Wouldn't it be stupid to convert solar power to AC just to turn it back to DC 30 meters down the line to power my tv/pc/network devices/led lights?
Brody Williams
But why?
AC works just as fine and you don't have to mess around with it.
Alexander Jenkins
Wouldnt you still need lots of converters for everything?
5V USB
24V fans
15.5V laptop
230V coffee
Plus a frequency drive for every normal light bulb and motor (like washing machine).
How do people make this work?
Cooper Fisher
I think his point is all the AC to DC power bricks are the mess.
They do waste a lot of energy and create a lot of clutter.
I would definitely prefer USB power sockets in the walls, powered by a single efficient converter.
Christian Hill
DC can't produce shifting induced currents.
That is why Edison was BTFO.
>solar panels
They are a meme. You don't need them.
>wind turbines
They use alternators, so they produce AC (sometimes they convert it to DC and then back to AC though)