[Gllug] OT: Merging UPS outputs

[Nix]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Alain Williams whispered secretively:
> You could take power at (say) 5 volts -- feed is straight into your
> motherboard. The trouble is that everything else would need to
> take input at 5 volts. To get the same amount of power (volts X amps)
> you would need 50 times the current: which would mean having to have
> much thicker cables and a much greater distribution loss (ie loss
> in getting from the local substation to you).

Plus, it would be much more dangerous. What's that saying: `it's amps
that kill'?

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