Wall warts; was: hams on classiccmp

I agree with you. The less the governement interfers with what I can do to muself and my property (without it affecting others) the better. And thus I wamt to be able to buy a 'bare' mains transformer, even though in that state it is probably not safe to use. It needs to be encased, the case needs to be earthed if metal (and I'd want to earth the transformer core in any event), it needs suitable fuses in the primary and secondary circuits and so on. It is up to me to provide such 'extras'. Equally, thouygh, if I buy something that claims to be a ready-built stand-alone PSU, such as a wall-wart, then it should be safe to use. I shouldn't have to modify it to include fuses. And as I mentioned earlier, I am not convinced that most wall-warts are safe. -tony