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What is the best style electrical outlet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The main problems is high amperage required to get the same wattage and the difficulty to change voltage with dc; coming from someone that has a small workshop running out of 12v dc from solar panels and batteries

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It depends on what you're running, but I used to work for a low voltage lighting company. We did mostly 24vdc.