Maybe that was ? 42 ? - been a couple of years since I sat on a committee
that discussed and designed that long range stuff for automotive.

Martin [ former IEEE and EIA/JEDEC member ]
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Martin H. Eastburn wrote:
We are in the process of switching to ? 72 ? volts IIRC.
Yes high voltage. Low current. Less copper. Local power supplies
for generating what ever voltage wanted.
There are changes in the industry here and there and now a little more.
I suspect the power for toys will ?maybe? be the same. You just have a
local step-down switcher that can generate high current for boom box toys
and nominal current for lights. Very clean for DVD and GPS and car CPU's.

Martin

Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
http://lufkinced.com/


Ivan Vegvary wrote:
Okay, so the switch from 6 volts to 12 volts (automobiles) was made to
save copper and other benefits that I don't remember.

Why, for the same reasons, are we not switching to 24 volts? I
understand that a few military vehicles and commercial trucks are 24
volts. Why not our automobiles?

Anybody know?

Thanks,
Ivan Vegvary