Mike Coon wrote:

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I have done a Google search and find NO evidence that there are ANY on
sale.

I explained the point to Mike Coon in this thread.


IIRC, you "explained" that to some people a transformer is necessarily
an iron-cored device working at mains frequency. Whereas I think if it
quacks like a duck, it's a duck (so to speak).


** It has gotta walk like a duck too, you can buy gadgets that make a realistic quacking sounud. Duck hunters use them.


Not a very fundamental
distinction, but thanks for the citation...


** Just Google "transformerless PSU schem".

Most of the hits are for isolated SMPS schems.




..... Phil