>>> id anyone find this interesting?

I've always been curious why there aren't offline supplies that
use a triac-clipper (ie lamp-dimmer) as an input stage.  Wouldn't
that provide a very cheap step of voltage reduction that would make
the following stages much easier?

BillW
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