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nick pine
 
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Default A wall-wart alternative

0.022 uF @400 V*
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120 VAC --- --- to clock
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*Digikey's $29.95 M400-KIT-ND 400 V capacitor assortment contains
10 of these, along with 10 of 14 other values from 0.001 to 0.1 uF.


The rest of this stuff is cheap...

$13.65 for 100 1N5231BD1CTND 5.1V zeners,
$15.86 for 1000 P10KBACTND 10K resistors,
and a line cord cut off an old appliance.

Anyone else want to burn their house down? :-)

Nick