Date   : Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:29 +0100 (BST)
From   : Ant <503-aja@...>
Subject: Re: Electron power supplies

Hello Gareth,

     DC is of course only half of an AC supply, loosely speaking, so it
should do perfectly well.

Regards Ant





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On Tue, 31 May 2005, gARetH baBB wrote:

> 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.
>
>