Talk:Power management integrated circuit

Rant on Expert on subject

Typical that some one puts a tag on the page, but doesn't leave anything in the talk page. Maybe someone making the wiki macros should enforce people to put some comment in the talk page. It seems there are lots of critics running around placing {{cite}}, etc. and not leaving any details as why they put them there. Then the macro remains on the page forever because no on knows why they were put there in the first place (or what is needed for them to be removed). 216.94.244.179 (talk) 15:06, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I'll bite

I'm not an expert in Electronics and I'm not the person who tagged the page, but the words Power ICs are solid state devices that convert heat directly into electricity are wrong. That's a Thermo-Electric Device, not Power Management. I'm not aware of any consumer electronic device that attempts to harvest energy from its own wasted heat, not least because that would involve breaking the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Thermo-Electric Devices are used mostly for cooling, but also to generate electricity from unrefined energy sources like a campfire. This also isn't Power Management, but I'm no expert. Spuriogram (talk) 11:27, 16 February 2015 (UTC)