hams on classiccmp

[Tony Duell]

> 
> >> they used to come with wall warts and now come with tiny little
> >> bricks with a mains-cord socket rather than mains prongs instead.
> >> They appear to be switchers, which has good sides and bad sides....
> > You may find those SMPSU blocks will work from either 115V or 230V
> > mains with [no] user adjustments.
> 
> They're marked that way, certainly: "110-240VAC 50/60Hz".  That's one
> reason I suspect them of being switchers.

Of course in general SMPSUs are lighter than linear supplies of the same 
output power. So if these brickes seem light, they're probably switchers.

> 
> > I assume the input connector on the SMPSU is either an IEC plug or
> > one of those figure-of-8 connectors, or at least something stnadard.
> 
> Figure-of-8?  I suspect you're probably talking about the same thing,
> even though it doesn't quite look like most fonts' 8 to me.  Here's a

'Figure of 8' is the common (although incorrect for many reasons) name 
for the normal 2 pin main connector you find (found?) on cassette 
recorders, radios, etc in the 1980s. I've seen it caleld a 'Telefunken 
connector', although I suspect that name is dubious too.


-tony