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Re: Driving a DC PCB heated bed with AC mains?

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If you want to get 100 Watt from a 48 Watt resistance you will overheat the resistance and in a short time it will burn.

Not if you apply better cooling than still air or stop heating when some temperature is reached. Look at extruder heating resistors: they're spec'd for 3W and get heated with 25 Watts. They don't burn, because heating stops when temperature is reached.

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