Randall R Schulz wrote:
Offhand, I don't know how the efficiency of today's power supplies varies with the percentage of their rated output they're producing. In other words, does a higher-capacity PSU consume more mains power for a given level of consumption on its output side? If so, you wouldn't want to have such a large PSU, since that would be wasteful.
I haven't looked at switchmode technology for quite some time, but I would expect a fairly fixed efficiency in the 80-90% range, quite probably more. There will be a minimum consumption required in order to achieve optimal operation, but otherwise I think the output power will be e.g. 80% of the input power, and the rest is turned into heat. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org