Re: custom power supplies: feasibility

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

>The internals of all gear I know needs AC, and if you feed it with 
>DC, there are just a bunch of diodes and capacitors which put it 
>down to the correct voltages it needs inside, most likely lower than 
>what you put in. The advantage is also, you don't have to worry 
>about correct polarity.
>
>If it wants AC of 18 V, its not very dangerous to give it less than 
>that as DC and just see if its happy with it.

my worry is that all the power is now going through one half of the 
rectifier
(any comments?)
andy butler