It doesn't necessarily always *DRAW* a kW. This is like the difference between a 3/8 inch diameter garden hose and a 5/8 inch. You can draw more water from the 5/8 in hose, but you don't have to. If a 350W and a 1kW supply are both feeding, say, a 250W load (typical for a desktop), they will both be drawing slightly over 250W from the mains - load power plus losses in the supply. Since both are likely 85-90% efficient, that means that in both cases mains draw will be between 280 and 295W.
Why anyone would need this supply is a different question, but i'm sure someone, somewhere will manage to eat up it's max output!
It it were a US company, not only would they be piddling themselves, the apology would be genuine (it would seem so, anyway) and would not be a well worded. And yes, I'm a US citizen. I love British use of language sometimes!:)
I would think that it would take the Evil Empire about 30 seconds to distribute a patch for Windows, and I'm sure the Linux community could do it even faster and more stably. And the doom predicted by people who think that their children will all disappear due to the sudden rise in boogeymen will no doubt be disappointed. What will really torque my nut are my watches - they mostly all "know" when DST starts, and they will all be hosed!
And it does this *without making any electrical contact to the battery*! That's what the instructions say - do not cover battery contacts. Works by osmosis! Wow. The likelihood of this being anything other than yet another internet scam and about the same as Idi Amin impregnating Jessica Simpson.
And people, as anyone knows who has seen "The Matrix", are a great source of power. Have a few kids, wire 'em up to your PC, and you're online forever.
Huh. In this part of the midwest, power outages are expected in the winter. Them old folks can't shovel the coal into the boilers fast enough around here to keep the lights on. We cope, mostly, by having large furry dogs to keep our feet warm.
Are probably your best bets in terms of reliable, long term power failure protection. UPS power is as you note very expensive in terms of dollars per kwh, but a generator is more hassle since, if you don't pay huge bucks for an automated solution, you're gonna have to drag your nice toasty butt out of bed and get it started. You also have to maintain it an dkeep fuel around for it. But if you do these things and get it wired into your electrical system properly, you can keep your house going for as long as you have gasoline. Days easily. Your power requirement are very small, so almost anything you buy will be overkill. 250V at 4A = 1000VA, and assuming a power factor of about.7, you will be drawing close to 1500W. Off the shelf 3KW generators are cheap and readily available. Be sure to put your PC on a good UPS - one that conditions power, because the power coming off the generator will be ugly and your PC may not like it too well. But to run electric motors and lights, it's fine.
Just picked one up, used of course. I find it every bit as useful as my Clie TJ37 with the WiFi that I don't use (I thought I would, but it's painful and WiFi access points are few and far between around here, and when you can find them they are fee based), and the sucky camera.
My frontal lobes revolted and overthrew my autonomic nervous system 5 minutes into the movie and I've been a brain dead, drooling idiot ever since. Even J Lo's butt wasn't enough to keep me sane.
They have a reasonable keyboard, Windows OS, a voice recorder if you need it, plus the usual Microsoft apps. No messing around when you get back to home base, either, you just sync it and you're good to go on your desktop with what you've done during the day on the palmtop.
This type of cooling is used in power plants - particularly nuclear. That's what those cooling towers are doing. The coal fired plant in my local town uses towers as well. It's very efficient.
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It doesn't necessarily always *DRAW* a kW. This is like the difference between a 3/8 inch diameter garden hose and a 5/8 inch. You can draw more water from the 5/8 in hose, but you don't have to. If a 350W and a 1kW supply are both feeding, say, a 250W load (typical for a desktop), they will both be drawing slightly over 250W from the mains - load power plus losses in the supply. Since both are likely 85-90% efficient, that means that in both cases mains draw will be between 280 and 295W. Why anyone would need this supply is a different question, but i'm sure someone, somewhere will manage to eat up it's max output!
It it were a US company, not only would they be piddling themselves, the apology would be genuine (it would seem so, anyway) and would not be a well worded. And yes, I'm a US citizen. I love British use of language sometimes! :)
I would think that it would take the Evil Empire about 30 seconds to distribute a patch for Windows, and I'm sure the Linux community could do it even faster and more stably. And the doom predicted by people who think that their children will all disappear due to the sudden rise in boogeymen will no doubt be disappointed. What will really torque my nut are my watches - they mostly all "know" when DST starts, and they will all be hosed!
Just cut the foil up into little teeny pieces. That should be nano enough to work at least as well as this gadget.
And it does this *without making any electrical contact to the battery*! That's what the instructions say - do not cover battery contacts. Works by osmosis! Wow. The likelihood of this being anything other than yet another internet scam and about the same as Idi Amin impregnating Jessica Simpson.
And people, as anyone knows who has seen "The Matrix", are a great source of power. Have a few kids, wire 'em up to your PC, and you're online forever.
Huh. In this part of the midwest, power outages are expected in the winter. Them old folks can't shovel the coal into the boilers fast enough around here to keep the lights on. We cope, mostly, by having large furry dogs to keep our feet warm.
Are probably your best bets in terms of reliable, long term power failure protection. UPS power is as you note very expensive in terms of dollars per kwh, but a generator is more hassle since, if you don't pay huge bucks for an automated solution, you're gonna have to drag your nice toasty butt out of bed and get it started. You also have to maintain it an dkeep fuel around for it. But if you do these things and get it wired into your electrical system properly, you can keep your house going for as long as you have gasoline. Days easily. Your power requirement are very small, so almost anything you buy will be overkill. 250V at 4A = 1000VA, and assuming a power factor of about .7, you will be drawing close to 1500W. Off the shelf 3KW generators are cheap and readily available. Be sure to put your PC on a good UPS - one that conditions power, because the power coming off the generator will be ugly and your PC may not like it too well. But to run electric motors and lights, it's fine.
Just picked one up, used of course. I find it every bit as useful as my Clie TJ37 with the WiFi that I don't use (I thought I would, but it's painful and WiFi access points are few and far between around here, and when you can find them they are fee based), and the sucky camera.
The title alone is a work of art! Hollywood couldn't come up with something that good.
My frontal lobes revolted and overthrew my autonomic nervous system 5 minutes into the movie and I've been a brain dead, drooling idiot ever since. Even J Lo's butt wasn't enough to keep me sane.
They have a reasonable keyboard, Windows OS, a voice recorder if you need it, plus the usual Microsoft apps. No messing around when you get back to home base, either, you just sync it and you're good to go on your desktop with what you've done during the day on the palmtop.
This type of cooling is used in power plants - particularly nuclear. That's what those cooling towers are doing. The coal fired plant in my local town uses towers as well. It's very efficient.