>Date:    Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:57:46 EDT
>From:    Harold Hallikainen <haroldhallikainen@JUNO.COM>
>Subject: Re: PIC power supply ...
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:55:50 -0400 "Martin R. Green" <elimar@BIGFOOT.COM>
>writes:

>        Ya know, that's really an interesting idea.  Actually, it'd be
>just a wall wart with an IEC input connector (instead of the various
>country mains connectors) and a couple tapped holes to bolt the thing to
>the rear panel.  Actually, I have seen little desk top enclosed supplies
>that could probably be bolted into a cabinet in this fashion.  It'd be
>great, though, to have a 12 VDC 500mA unregulated supply that you just
>bolt to the rear panel, and have it cost $5.
>
>Harold

Somewhere I've seen this suggestion before, might have been Jim
Warren in his Realizable Fantasies column of MicroTimes. Not sure.

Anyway the suggestion was to use the existing 12VDC standard connector...
the cigarette lighter plug.

--Bruce