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Maybe I don't understand electrical engineering well enough, but wouldn't an ornithopter then also have to carry some sort of heavy duty (several hundred or tho
by dclowd9901 15y ago
Maybe I don't understand electrical engineering well enough, but wouldn't an ornithopter then also have to carry some sort of heavy duty (several hundred or thousand-pound) transformer as well?
- sliverstorm 15y agoFirst, since the power draw would be small, the transformer could be small too. Second, you could probably use solid-state devices like a regulator & rectifier combo instead of a transformer.
- mkup 15y agoNot necessarily - for example, fluorescent lamp glows near high-voltage power line, even if is not plugged in to any power source.
- DasIch 15y agoA transformer consists of two inductors that transform electricity by - you guessed it - induction. You don't need a transformer because you can just get the electricity in the correct voltage by using the right inductor. I haven't made any calculations but I would expect the battery to be bigger and of greater weight than a sufficient inductor.