Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Heron Power has made the transformer 100x smaller.
The trick? Speed. Traditional transformers switch power 60 times a second, the same rate the grid has used for a century, which is why they're giant, oil-filled boxes.
Drew Baglino explains how Heron's devices switch hundreds of thousands of times a second instead. The faster the switching, the smaller the transformer needs to be to do the same job.
Heron Power has made the transformer 100x smaller.
The trick? Speed. Traditional transformers switch power 60 times a second, the same rate the grid has used for a century, which is why they're giant, oil-filled boxes.
Drew Baglino explains how Heron's devices switch hundreds of thousands of times a second instead. The faster the switching, the smaller the transformer needs to be to do the same job.
