Commodore 64 Power Supply

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 04:45, gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:59:32AM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Just to confirm : There are mains swithces, yes? There is no
> > mains-frequency trandormer in them, rather the mains is recrtified,
> > smoothed, and then chopped/
>
> I've never had one apart.  If there's a mains transformer inside then it
> must be tiny, because the power supplies are lighter than any linear
> power supply I have.  I suppose it's possible that the transformer is
> quite small - what's the current draw on the 9V AC line anyway

I believe it's spec'd at 1A,  if we're still talking about the original c64 
supply here...

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