Date   : Tue, 31 May 2005 02:27:12 +0100 (BST)
From   : gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...>
Subject: Re: Electron power supplies

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> The AC's only presented on a couple of pins of the expansion connector,
> but otherwise is rectified and regulated to various DC voltages inside
> the unit - the Electron itself makes no use of the AC. (So I was told by
> lots of people when I asked this a year or so ago anyway :)

Indeed, I've run a bare Electron off a 12V *DC* PSU before - sort of thing 
you run a model railway/Scalectrix off. The internal PSU is quite 
accommodating and can cope with most stuff you throw at it.