Yeah, have you seen the size of those? Those are chem lasers in order to get the wattage needed to destroy something.
Plus you need the electronics/mechanics to track the device perfectly to keep the laser on target in order for it to do damage.
All completely unnecessary to drop a small drone out of the sky.
Nah, lasers too big. It would be a simple birdshot shotgun. Its detection and aiming.
When they are high up, they can be hard to spot and hear.
But a pair of sensitive mic’s and a camera designed to look for them could easily be paired with some AR glasses.
What sucks is that us hobbist’s can’t get FPV, motors, ESC’s, or batteries at reasonable prices (if at all)
The reality of it, is this is short lived.
Anti-Air meant for small drones like this is coming and soon.
And it will shut these down quickly.
Vote with your wallet
I did.
I bought my 3080 back in 2020, because I knew AI was the future of graphics, based on all the R&D and white papers nVidia was pumping out up to that point.
No regrets.
Not my problem nVidia was the only one to invest in the tech, while AMD relied solely on TSMC to shrink their dies.
It has nothing to do with brand loyalty or fanboys or any of that shit.
It’s just straight up better tech.
hahaha… it saddens me that only those >30yrs old may get this.
Start with SNAP CIRCUITS toys. Even if your an adult, these are a start.
Then upgrade to a ELEGOO UNO Electronics kit off Amazon.
It’ll give you the basics of powering stuff, and then basics of signals.
Some kind of RC Car, Multicopter, Self built 3D Printer hobby will also help get you started.
Why will no one sell a sub 50k AWD PHEV?
I mean you’re asking a lot for 50k.
Escape = (Engine/Hybrid) + Battery(PVEH)
Rav4 Hybrid = (Engine/Hybrid) + Extra Motors/Diff(AWD)
But your asking for,
(Engine/Hybrid) + Battery(PVEH) + Extra Motors/Diff(AWD)
That’s a lot of equipment.
True that, which is probably why EV isn’t ‘taking off’ as expected.
The range issue is really limited to commuter cars only.
Not many people can afford to have a dedicated commuter car, so they have their primary as a commuter car.
Only those where 2 people need to commute, the commuter car needs to be dirt cheap (which EV’s currently are not)
These days, how many households have 2 commuters anyway with all the work-from-home being more common place.
EV’s won’t take off unless
1 - The range issue is solved, either through longer ranges, or faster charging at more available locations leading to people replacing their primary vehicle
2 - EV’s become cheap enough that it’s a no-brainer to use those as the secondary commuter vehicles.
Primary Vehicle -> Hybrid
Secondary Vehicle -> Full Electric with charger at home
Stuff with motors are, like air con and refrigerators. Those are better left on AC.
No. Trend is they are all showing up with frequency drives. Of which those inverters are rectifying to DC before making their own AC.
Efficiency gains are massive of a frequency drive , hence why they are doing it.
Would be even better if they could drop the first rectifying circuit and just use the inverter portion only.
You lose very little by rectifying AC
You lose a lot actually in all the small cheap rectifiers that are in every device in the house.
Where a single purpose designed FET rectifier that is built for efficiency at the breaker would be drastically better.
You wouldn’t have to.
Every device instead of having an expensive PD communication device in it, would have an even cheaper PWM DC Step-down.
No communication needed.
Each device would just draw what it needs to.
_ It wants 3.3V, or 5V, or 12V, or 48V, or 18.7V,
Exactly
That’s why if you had a 110VDC supply at the wall, you do a simple PWM step-down to the required voltage in every device.
LOADS cheaper/efficient than any USB-C PD circuit…
Saves on transformers, saves on dozens of USB PD wall outlets, saves on communication needed to communicate the PD required between each device and every USB PD wall outlet.
Much cheaper. More efficient.
If only the wall was 100VDC instead of AC
No, AC requires large heavy transformers and then rectifying.
DC dropping down to a lower DC is way easier and more efficient.
Well, I mean if you don’t understand power electronics I don’t see how you can make that statement.
What?
Most vaccums are brushless, where they are already converting the AC to DC internally. Your vacuums would be cheaper.
Where would I recharge batteries for my lawn care equipment?
again what? The same way? Your charger is converting AC to DC. You could skip that step.
All of these appliances would work better/cheaper with a 110VDC@15A source.
powerful DC-DC
No, are you not aware how these work?
A step down DC-DC is nothing compared to a transformer rectifier or PD electronics with communication with a USB-C.
again, simpler and cheaper electronics for everything
PWM DC to DC dropping voltage to what you need is easy/cheep.
So instead of a big transformer + rectifier that each device has now, it would be a much smaller/cheaper step down at like 99.8% efficiency
Bible belt thinks he’s the anti-christ and wants him to ruin the world so they can have their rapture.
You could say the same about C and D batteries too.
They’re all 1.5V