Timeline for Why do we use low resistance cables to minimize power losses?
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| Aug 16, 2019 at 11:54 | comment | added | TonyM | Your explanation doesn't hold water. Reading between the lines, you mean mains input cables going into the regulating PSU. But it describes all cables. Some outputs are post-regulated by the motherboard, some not and the latter get voltage drops. Downvoting til rewritten and corrected, I'm afraid (which isn't just adding 'input' in a few places). | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 11:45 | history | edited | TonyM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
English correction.
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| Aug 16, 2019 at 9:33 | comment | added | untreated_paramediensis_karnik | I've edited my question by including an answer. I have followed your tip to split the total resistance into the wire and the load one. What I found is that the power dissipated in the wiring decreases when the resistance of the wires go to 0 or when that resistance increases compared to the resistance of the load. This goes against your claim that a high resistance in the cable necessarily implies a high loss in the cable. Did I go wrong somewhere? (I moved my edit to an answer) | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 8:53 | history | edited | jusaca | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2019 at 8:48 | history | answered | jusaca | CC BY-SA 4.0 |