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| Schematic from the game 'Stray' |
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| niconiconi:
--- Quote from: abquke on July 29, 2022, 12:16:46 pm ---Pretty much what niconiconi said. AC into some switchers and into a battery. Not unlike a USB charger wall wart thing, but much beefier. --- End quote --- Their purpose and functionality are similar, but the implementations differ greatly. Nearly all USB chargers and wall-warts for electronics do ~KHz switching at the AC primary side at a high voltage to reduce transformer size. But this battery charger does a linear step-down first to 24 V using an old-fashioned 50 Hz transformer, and only performs DC-DC conversion at the secondary side. I guess for a heavy device like a lead-acid battery charger, the extra weight or size doesn't really matter (and since it's switched-mode the efficiency can still be high). From the schematics, it's also an easy way to allow an aux DC input. P.S: in my original answer I almost recognized the letters "LT" on the DC-DC chips, but I wasn't sure whether it was an illusion caused by reading too much Linear App Notes so I didn't say anything. It turned out I wasn't wrong, it was just that there's another National chip with "LM" on it that confused me. :popcorn: |
| kjr18:
Another fun easter egg within this game: during one mission you need to turn on power generator that can supply 1.21GW. |
| Cyberdragon:
--- Quote from: kjr18 on August 06, 2022, 05:04:31 pm ---Another fun easter egg within this game: during one mission you need to turn on power generator that can supply 1.21GW. --- End quote --- Look closer at those characters there too...they'll look familiar. |
| jonovid:
unlikely this schematic has anything deeper. my impression it is just added as wall art. having played all the Ratchet games up to playstation 4. I would give this Japanese style cat game, set in the age of robots, a 10 out of 10 . as a solid 15 hr single player platformer. they should make a sequel to Stray. |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 22, 2022, 07:18:00 am ---Thanks for this post. It reminded me that I need to buy this game when on sale. The fact that it has schematics in the game makes me want to play it even more now. --- End quote --- I really enjoyed playing it. It had this great ambiance. Felt like every single screenshot could be a piece of art. |
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