Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site uicsl Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!seefromline From: pollack@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: surplus power supply Message-ID: <7000005@uicsl> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 12:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uicsl.7000005 Posted: Mon Jul 15 12:13:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:02:16 EDT References: <731@abnji.UUCP> Lines: 38 Nf-ID: #R:abnji.UUCP:-73100:uicsl:7000005:000:729 Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!pollack Jul 15 11:13:00 1985 BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! Twice(!) I bought the $5 supply from radio shack, along with a 18vac transformer and miscellaneous packaging. After the usual shorting associated with building a prototype, both of them started supplying 25 volts on the +5 line! The first I thought was just a fluke; the second one made a Z80 smoke and popped the glass out of a 2708. Its possible that since the device was built for a known environment, it has no builtin protection against shorts or overload. Don't buy it!!! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BEWARE! Jordan Pollack