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by mschuster91 1589 days ago
> Unlike a nice sine wave, those spend a good while hovering near zero volts, so the PSU has to be able to tolerate that.

That wave chart was atrocious. I wonder if the extra load on the DC-side caps leads to them having lower life expectancy than the ones in a PSU attached to a proper power grid?