From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Bob Lawrence wrote:

>  I shudder to think that the house of the future will have dozens of
> these bloody things running lights and bloody-nearly everythign else!
> They already have what they call a "power factor" correction spec, and
> that frightens me too... power engineers talking about power factor
> for an SMPS! 

  Last I heard, every 300W or higher switcher requires power factor correction. 
Nothing wrong with that, they don't have to generate as much at the source.

  It adds to the complexity, and somewhat adversely affects the reliability, 
but hey, it's all in the interest of better overall efficiency.
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