On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Herbert Graf wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:34 +0200, Peter wrote:
>>> A standard ProProg package is 1 pound 2 ounces.  Most of the weight comes
>>> from the wall wart and the serial cable.  The board and packaging are rather
>>> light.
>>
>> Why do you ship a wall wart ?
>
> Probably because buying something, getting it home and discovering that
> "wall wart is not included" is even worse then "batteries are not
> included".
>
> Personally, if I were to spend that kind of money on something, and NOT
> be able to just "plug it in", I'd be rather ticked off.

There is brisk business going on with adapters and foreign voltage 
plugs. Most of the brisk business consists in repair requests for wall 
warts and worse, *after* the foreign adapter set was tried out and let 
the smoke out.

Peter
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