In Reply to: Wall Wart questions posted by SCBailey on November 16, 2006 at 07:06:46:
The wall warts are deficient in 2 ways: they don't filter and they don't usually deliver the stronger power with which the MF units thrive (read the archives here and in Tweaks about this).I have the MF X10d. Got it used with a stronger amperage wall wart than the standard and it was OK. But I built a torroidal power supply (took maybe an hour) from available materials and it's a winner! No surprise, as that's exactly what others report.
There are lots of recipes for this. Try Tweaks but also try a Google on this.
Meantime, if you really want to do filtering and especially for lower draw digital units, read up on Jon Risch's Super Quick and Dirty Isolation Transformer. This is not suitable for high power draw equipment, unfortunately.
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Follow Ups
- No expert but IME - bartc 08:18:57 11/16/06 (2)
- Re: No expert but IME - SCBailey 10:27:00 11/16/06 (1)
- Yes, I did - bartc 15:05:16 11/16/06 (0)