wrote:

I would be tempted to see if the electronic device can be modified to
feed it DC (since there is a fair chance it converts its AC input to DC
at some point anyway).


It should run on dc without modification. As the OP didnt think to tell
us what it was, we can only guess.

You are assuming it has a full wave bridge rectifier on its input...
(fair assumption certainly, but not guarenteed).



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Cheers,

John.

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