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Re: Avalon ASIC users thread
by
Epoch
on 07/02/2013, 19:34:10 UTC
This is a business opportunity to make a high efficiency wall to dc converter.
Making a very focused product, well specified load and voltage, can allow the efficiency to be much higher.

Pragmatically, even if you manage to reduce power consumption by 45W you'd only be saving 1kWh per day. That's $0.11/day (depending on your local power costs, of course; I'm using $0.11/kWh).

Your yearly saving using such a device would be $40. A 'wall-to-dc converter' designed for a ~600W load would cost many times more than that. Sales volume would be low, since it would have little or no use beyond this niche application; so amortizing the non-recoverable engineering costs to design it would bump the per-unit price even further. Not to mention the expense of UL/CE certification that would be required.

Such a product would be unlikely to ever pay for itself.