On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:35 -0400, Hector Martin wrote:
> wouter van ooijen wrote:
> > For an unregulated adapter that is quite normal. When I put a power
> > connector on anything I make sure that is accepts a wide range of
> > voltage, and survives inverse polarity. Most gadgets I see seem to be
> > designed likewise, but I recently got a USB hub that uses a stabilised
> > 5V DC wall-wart. That gives me the creeps.
> 
> I have a rather large number of recent devices that all use regulated 5V
> switching wall warts.
> 
> - FPGA board (Digilent Spartan-3E Starter Kit)
> - PDA (Sharp Zaurus, all models IIRC)
> - Nintendo DS
> - 2.5" USB hard drives (pretty much every model)
> - some small USB hubs
> - La Fonera (That small, cheap, somewhat poorly designed locked-in
> router that people like me like to hack and use as a general purpose
> access point/router)
> 
> All use 5V stabilized power. The wall warts are convenient for PIC
> projects though :)

Which has been great for the surplus market. A local electronics store
has sold 5V 1A regulated switching wall warts for $2/each for quite a
while now, I've got tons... :) TTYL

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