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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by clebio on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:31PM (#17953463)
> capacitors are still the bulkiest components in the MacBook charger, as you can see below.

This seems like an odd statement, given the image directly next to that sentence (and all evidence from any electronics device I've ever taken apart). The transformer is the largest piece, followed possibly by the inductors. IANA electrician, though, so maybe there's some context that I'm missing (i.e. a transform isn't technically a single component)?

Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by danielvf on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:38PM (#17953506)
The transformer may be the biggest single piece in the MacBook charger, but the many capacitors together take up more volume than the transformer.
Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by kens on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:45PM (#17953535)
I meant that in total, the capacitors take up more space than the transformer. But the sentence is unclear, so I rewrote it.