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Old 10-03-09, 09:54 PM   #17
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I wonder what's the standby loss on that old controller.

For an extremely high energy efficiency, it's hard to beat some modern low power opamps or a MSP430 microprocessor. It takes a lot more effort to design with a MSP430, though.
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