In article ,
mentioned...
I read in sci.electronics.design that Watson A. Name - Watt Sun, Dark
Remover wrote (in MPG.1a5f3516dea0d48d989af3@n
ews.dslextreme.com) about 'Dropping 1V from a Regulated 6V Wall Wart',
on Fri, 2 Jan 2004:
I finally found the adapter at Rat Shack. http://tinyurl.com/2784r
$3.99? That's for a hundred?
I could make one out of an F panel socket and a Belling-type line socket
for GBP 0.63 at one-off prices from Rapid Electronics in UK
Oh, I suppose at the current exchange rate, that about $4. (;-)
CPC (a Farnell company) has all four permutations of socket/plug for
prices from GBP 0.69 to GBP 1.36 at one-off prices. But delivery is not
free.
Yeah, well I went over to the battery display when I was in Rat Shack
the other day. They wanted $3 someting for four AA cells, and I can
go over to Fry's (any time, not just 'on sale') and buy four alkaline
AA cells in a blister pack for a buck and a half, less than half RS's
price. Go figure.
So if the adapter was sold by some other electronics store here in
the U.S., it might be only two bucks instead of four. But then that's
how Radio Scrap got a store on every corner, and is known colloquially
as the McDonalds of electronics.
But then someone showed me a URL to Dick Smith Electronics in Oz,
which had this adapter. If I had bought one or two from them, they
would've cost more when considering shipping, etc, and would've taken
a couple weeks to get here. So looking at it from that angle, four
bucks ain't half bad. ;-)
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