Commodore 64 Power Supply

Wall-warts are often recoemnded in electronic magazines over here as being a safe way to get the low voltages for the projects from the mains. Personally I regard them as about the most dangerous thing around. I've yet to see one with proper mains fusing, most don't have output current limiting, and so on.One common type sold in the UK has a 4-way cross-shapped plug on it (3.5mm jack, 2.5mm jack, 2.1mm coax, 2.5mm coax) with separate 1.3mm coax ('Walkman' plug) and a 9V battery clip on the same cable. It's very easy to get a short-circuited output if those conenctors touch each other. YEs, I've had it happen, and the wall-wart got hot enough to melt it's plastic case (and would have got even hotter if I'd not unplugged it!). I'd much ratehr trust one of my home-mae PSUs, in a die-cast metal box with over-rated components, mains and LT fuses, etc. -tony