On Nov 8, 2004, at 12:47 AM, roines reenig wrote:

> Just curious, what are they doing in there to take a 600mA current
>  and drive it up to a 2000mA?

It's a transformer.  They do that sort of thing.

If there's 600mA at 240VAC going in (140 Watts!), and only 5.1V at 2A 
coming
out (10.2 W), that's pretty awful for a switching power supply.  
Presumably
the input power is an absolute-maximum, required by safety regulations 
sort
of thing, while the output specs are real and guaranteed.   Typical 
input
current had better be a lot lower!

BillW

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