DC/DC converter education . . where?
OK - the vast majority of electronic equip I have are all battery-power based: laptop, cell phone, bluetooth, tablet, cat-tracker, and portable battery pack. The most power-hungry being the laptop. A...
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Gdetrailer wrote:Of course it makes sense, it's just that in many situations it's just not worth worrying about.
Make sense?
When dry camping, my inverter is never off, so the 0.5a (in my case it's higher) is a 'sunk cost' to me. I turn off unneeded devices at night, but never the whole system. I have 640ah of batteries and 835w of solar. hondochica, while maybe not that endowed, sounds like he has plenty o' power too.
If you want or need to conserve, then yes, by all means turn your inverter off when you can. But on larger systems, where the inverter is never off, these "inefficiencies" are a very small part of the overall energy picture.
I don't know what hondochica's 'great' battery bank exactly is, but if it's large and easily rechared, he may too conclude it's not worth it. Is it wasteful? Yeah. Is it "incredibly wasteful"? No.
