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Subject: Re: [motm] Portable power

From: Matthew Hiscock <audio@...>
Date: 2008-08-20

On 19-Aug-08, at 11:11 PM, John L Rice wrote:

PS – PLEASE understand, fear and respect AC current before attempting DIY power projects! Death awaits just a tiny stupid mistake away. (I’ve been REALLY lucky at least three times in my life . . . and I’m not generally stupid . . . unless it comes to credit cards . . .and especially women! ;-) 

For that very reason I'm going to avoid the totally DIY approach (cool though it is!) and try that Elpac wall-wart. At least that way the worst I could do would be to take the wrong 15v lead from the DIN plug, instead of giving the household AC a new route (ie. my body) to travel.

If someone forsees a specific problem with the Elpac, let me know. Otherwise I'll give that a shot and report back my findings.

Matthew