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rowan · 12-23-2009, 03:47 AM

Looking at it another way... if the AC power supply and DC-AC inverter are both 80% efficient, you'll be wasting around a third of your input power in conversion losses (which will mostly be emitted as heat)

12-23-2009, 03:47 AM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Looking at it another way... if the AC power supply and DC-AC inverter are both 80% efficient, you'll be wasting around a third of your input power in conversion losses (which will mostly be emitted as heat)