higher voltage would actually make it more compact
Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My guess is it’s similar to the electric motors they put in cars vs industrial motors… they can both put out X amount of power but the industrial ones (or in this case the laptop power) can do it continuously without overheating while the other can only output “up to” that power rating for a short time without burning up.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Basically ‘duty cycle’…same reason electric heaters all put out 1500W but ones for larger rooms are ‘larger’. Big or small, they both put out 1500W, but the small ones can only do it for a few minutes at a time before having to cool off, while the larger ones can run for longer and heat up a big room more quickly.