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  • Exactly.

    I’d say that’s most languages in a nutshell - they start wherever, then grow organically based on a million reasons.

    And the written form is nothing more than an attempt to capture how it sounds, to codify how it’s currently used, not to be prescriptive.

    John McWhorter explains this really well in “Great Languages of the World” - he’s pretty light-hearted and amused by things like how convoluted and inconsistent English is, while also delving into how different languages likely came to be the way they are.



  • It’s not - you wouldn’t need a power supply/transformer then.

    LED’s run on direct current, so the wall wart converts 220v to 5v using either a transformer (old school) or a switching power supply (more likely, same as what a laptop uses).

    I’d be surprised if the wall wart didn’t list both input and output voltage and current. That’s required by some kind of regulation.

    The key will be what voltage and amperage (or wattage) the panel is designed for. You’ll need a power supply to match the voltage closely, and to (generally) output at least the max amperage the lamp can consume. More voltage is not good, more amperage is fine - a light will only use what it can use.