http://chrisgammell.com/2008/10/09/dc-powered-home/ Analog electronics and everything else between 1 and 0 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://chrisgammell.com/2008/10/09/dc-powered-home/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Buying a House and Making It More Efficient | Chris Gammell's Analog Life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:46:59 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=373#comment-454 [...] DC Power Outlets — Instead of plugging in cell chargers that are burning power no matter if you are charging something or not, why not have a few lines in your house that are set to a specific voltage, say 6V (most devices are running 3.3V these days). Then when the 6V comes to the wall, you could have a “tuner” based on a buck converter that would dial down that voltage to the one you need. Delivering power from a central source could be controlled remotely, so you could close a relay at the source and no power would be delivered to the converter unless “asked for”, and there would be very low losses in the system. [...] [...] DC Power Outlets — Instead of plugging in cell chargers that are burning power no matter if you are charging something or not, why not have a few lines in your house that are set to a specific voltage, say 6V (most devices are running 3.3V these days). Then when the 6V comes to the wall, you could have a “tuner” based on a buck converter that would dial down that voltage to the one you need. Delivering power from a central source could be controlled remotely, so you could close a relay at the source and no power would be delivered to the converter unless “asked for”, and there would be very low losses in the system. [...]

]]> http://chrisgammell.com/2008/10/09/dc-powered-home/comment-page-1/#comment-397 EEStor Not Delivering | Chris Gammell's Analog Life Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:44:13 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=373#comment-397 [...] simplest capacitor possible is two flat plates of metal, connected to a DC electricity [...] [...] simplest capacitor possible is two flat plates of metal, connected to a DC electricity [...]

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