Doing a bit of in-my-head math... At 1A, that'd be about 50g/day. I don't remember the voltage required for electroplating using CuSO4+acid, but I remember it

Doing a bit of in-my-head math... At 1A, that'd be about 50g/day. I don't remember the voltage required for electroplating using CuSO4+acid, but I remember it being low. I suppose it probably has to do with electrode spacing too. As a guesstimate, let's go for 5 volts (which I have no idea of the accuracy). If we're stepping household 120V down to 5V, we've got a factor of 60 reduction. With a (big ass) buck converter, we can in theory get 15A*60 = 900A = 900C/s out of a standard breaker. That works out to 49kg/day? That seems ridiculously large. I'd love for someone to point out what I did wrong though. I've assumed 100% efficiency everywhere, but even cutting it down to 10% still results in ~5kg/day. Edit: I'm sure it's an expensive power supply, but it's nice to see that I got in the right ballpark: http://www.americanplatingpower.com/reverse-pulse-power-axd-compact-s.php http://www.americanplatingpower.com/reverse-pulse-power-axd-...