[sdiy] Switching combo wall warts

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:55, Altitude wrote:
> I have an application where I need +/-15V for the analog side and +5 for a
> pic based midi trigger and I came across a switching wall wart that has all
> that I need. The one I am looking at has 160 mA on the 15 volt rails and 3A
> on the 5 so I take that to mean that only the 5V is the switcher and the
> other rails are just standard.

This is not necessarily a good assumption...

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