Re: (ET) Recommendations for modern replacements for the electronics?

[Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu>]

   From: "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
   Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:29:18 -0400

   > In any case, it creates a phantom load, which perhaps you don't want. 

   I don't know what you mean by this.  Can you explain?

If you leave your charger on all the time, it uses power.  The amount of
useful power going into the batteries is very small -- just the
replacement of self-discharge.  In this regime, the charger is likely to
be very inefficient, i.e., the input power is much higher than the
useful output power.  So it mostly uses energy for nothing.

                                   Ken