"JAY EMRIE" wrote to "ALL" (15 Jul 03  13:33:00)
 --- on the topic of "Bed Headboard lamp"

 JE>  The idiots had hard wired the input of the voltage dropping
 JE> transformer directly to the 110 V AC input. The on/off switch only
 JE> switched the 12V output! No wonder it hummed when turned off or on!

I imagine they took no account of how much the transformer noise may be
annoying to a person using their lamps.

But the stupid switch on the secondary reminds me, just imagine how much
power is lost in the terribly inefficient wall warts we all use and some
of those are very noisy as well.

 Mike
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