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Old 14th Sep 2018, 7:04 pm   #37
usradcoll1
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Default Re: Can I use a shaver plug and socket ???

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Originally Posted by turretslug View Post
Come on chaps, it's a 7W rated solid-state radio with an internal LV PSU, the inexpensive autotransformer linked to is a 45VA type. The radio would have to be doing something unfeasibly horrible to the mains waveform to even make the transformer blink!
Doesn't anyone have a junk mains operated transistor radio that has a similar transformer with a 240 volt primary?
You can save a lot of money doing it that way, instead of buying a travel transformer.
Panasonic radios used a center tapped low voltage secondary mains transformer so only two diodes had to be used. That can easily worked around it if the transformer to be used doesn't have it.
Dave, Midwest USA.
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