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Right.  Exactly what I'm saying.  CHEAPNESS.  TAWDRY.  EASY TO GET BY.

The company I worked for was a competitor of UL.  UL is NOT a government
agency, but is a test house, as was MET Laboratories, where I worked.

Ed Edwards
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Elson Trinidad" <elson@...>
To: <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com>; <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] an1x construction. (Wall Warts of all sorts)


> At 12:30 AM 10/1/01 -0400, Ed Edwards wrote:
> >
> >Generally, all of the curcuitry in a wall wart is usually this: a
> >transformer, some diodes and maybe some capacitors.  These components can
be
> >easily built into the unit.  Tawdry and cheap design is why we suffer
with
> >these stupid warty chunks of plastic and metal that take up so much
space.
> >In the back of my 12 space rack I have to stuff 5 ugly wall warts which
> >hardly fit.
> >
>
> I heard the real reason that companies use wall-warts for their products
is
> because for any product with a power transformer, it requires UL (or
> equivalent) approval. But if the transformer is in the form of an external
> AC unit (wall wart), and the particular wall wart already had its UL
> approval years ago, manufacturers can release any number of products
> without having to get individual UL approval for them.
>
>
>
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