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On a slightly unrelated note, why do we manufacture "bulbs" that contain their own ballast/inverter that screw into a 110 socket? Why do we sell everything with
by friend_and_foe 2y ago
On a slightly unrelated note, why do we manufacture "bulbs" that contain their own ballast/inverter that screw into a 110 socket? Why do we sell everything with an external or built in adaptor, to plug into a 110 socket? It seems to me it's just legacy compatibility layer middleware, I can't think of anything outside of a kitchen that actually needs 110. Why don't we just start building houses with 12v connections for LED strips, since they run on that anyway? One inverter in the garage, some low voltage wiring around the house, done. It seems it would be cheaper, more efficient and more versatile to do this rather than wire a whole house for 110/220 and then every appliance have it's own AC -> DC and step down transformer to account for the fact that our electricity needs have drastically changed since 100 years ago.
- rsync 2y agoYes, precisely … but I think there is an issue with the transformer which would need to be energized 24/7 and uses power sitting idle … I forget - I did look into this - but somehow the 110 to 12v conversation using normal components eats up the energy savings?
- friend_and_foe 2y agoWell, with people doing whole home solar, that wouldn't be an issue. You'd just need an inverter to power some appliances in the kitchen. At the very least, LED lighting hardwired into the home would drop electric usage by double digit percentages.
- rsync 2y agoI definitely want to find the correct solution for this ... if not for my (already built) house, for our society in general. In addition to the electricity savings, there is an enormous gain in simplicity and elegance in removing a lot of high voltage wiring throughout every room of the house. As I mentioned, the high voltage hard-wired smoke detectors are another unnecessary set of high voltage circuits ...