You can tune a guitar, but you cant tuna fish.
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-- Parrot 1: "What's that stink?" Parrot 2: "That perch you're standing on."
why power adapters all over-voltage?
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You can cream asparagus, but you can't pea soup.
Huh? What's this supposed to mean?
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Q: Why do cows wear bells? A: Because their horns don't work.
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** Did you hear about the cow they thought was a genius ?Well, she was out standing in her field ...
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-- Two parrots are sitting on a perch. One says: "Do you smell fish?
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-- Did you hear about the woman who ate a doorknob? It turned her stomach.
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I went to a museum and asked how old the d "Well, I've been working here for 13 years, and when I started they told me those bones were 65 million years old."
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Your keyboard is obviously a racing keyboard. That's why there is no NASCAR key. Eric
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No, these things have capacitors which charge to a peak voltage, which is what you're measuring with your high-impedance multimeter.
You're forgetting about peak versus RMS voltages.
For instance, to make a 12V wall bug, we will take a 10:1 transformer, which gives us 12V AC RMS. This will rectify to a fluctuating DC, which is also 12V RMS.
That fluctuating DC will charge the internal capacitor to about 17V: its peak voltage (12 / 0.707).
The wall bug would have this behavior even if it were made up out of superconductive components. It contains reactances; it is not a battery with an internal resistance. That model does not apply.
The internal resistance of a battery-like voltage source will reduce voltage in proportion to the current demand (Ohm's law).
The wall bug's voltage drop is different. With increasing loads, the average of its increasingly rippling voltage will go down toward the RMS value, but near the RMS value, it should stiffen up and show a different voltage drop behavior from there toward zero ohms.
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-- Even after having said all that, the fact remains that because of its internal resistance, an unregulated wall-wart's output voltage is specified for a given load.