/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I found some old 24 VAC wall adapters that I think are originally for christmas lights and they really do put out that voltage at least without load. The gray one gives ~77 VDC.

>>2788565
Transistor with capacitor on gate/base to slowly ramp up voltage to saturation.

>>2788690
And I used to watch VHS tapes recorded at half speed on tapes that would get reused until failure from terrestrial TV with no complaints about quality.