Bob wrote:
OTOH, how many time-nuts have any interest in paying for a power supply that's up to time-nuts standards? It's really not easy to bring a small product to market at a small price. Even if you completely discount the personal effort of design, construction, and marketing, there's the issue of packaging. Without a package, it's just an amateur effort not worth considering. With a package, such as a Hammond box, the price moves into new territory and nobody's interested.
So the answer is to bring crap to market because nobody will pay for something that actually does the job?
IMO, the answer is to accept that the small, "little gizmo" providers simply cannot fulfill this need efficiently. I provided one solution, using a surplus device from a large supplier and fifteen minutes of soldering-iron time. Even if you buy a box for it, it won't cost much more than the $25 the OP proposed (and maybe not as much -- the ones I've made have cost less than $25 each). (And note that the OP did not propose a complete, mains-to-Tbolt solution. The proposed solution assumed an existing mains-to-12v supply.)
That is part (the essential part, IMO) of the "little gizmo" provider's business model -- find niche markets where things made at that scale provide *better* performance than the alternatives. There are lots of areas where this can be done, but also very many more where it cannot. The "little gizmo" provider is well-advised to learn how to tell the one from the other.
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