If you close the circuit breaker can it still shock from capacitors?
I wouldn’t experiment with such a malfunction when the unit is plugged in. The best solution is to de-energise the house, if you have experience with the electrical panel, and then manipulate to remove the broken parts from the socket.
Never knew those lads were so… complicated?
There’s a whole protocol for talking to supported devices so they can negotiate power delivery.
That can be done with a single chip. What’s actually complicated here is the switch-mode power supply itself.
It’s how you get a 90% efficiency vs a 10% efficiency from linear power supplies (transformer, full bridge rectifier, and a big ass-capacitor, then if you need a stable voltage, a voltage regulator, which makes things even less efficient). The benefit of linear supplies is that it’s very easy to produce very clean power for analog electronics, but digital electronics have a lot more wiggle room for noise in the power. Well designed SMPS have both low noise levels and also hogh efficiency. Those are more expensive :P.
There’s a field of engineering specific to power electronics. It can get super complicated. I don’t understand a lot of it myself.
After looking at RAM, clock speed, program storage space, and a few other components, Heller concluded that today’s USB-C chargers are more or less 563 times faster than the Apollo computer.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a30916315/usb-c-charger-apollo-11-computer/
It was getting better after the circuit board came off. (also: gifs that end too soon)
This reminds me of my life.
