Re: Using off-brand power supplies with a RamKeeper

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I should preface this by saying that I don't have the schematic of
> the RAMKeeper to refer to, so this answer is a bit of inference.
>
> You will not harm your board by trying a 9v supply.  The worst that
> could happen is that it will not work.
>
> It is likely that the 9.5v supply is regulated down to 5v in any case,
> and 9v is only about 6% low, and so should work fine.
>
> -michael

That's great, Michael!  Just what I was thinking (well, not the part about
the 9.5V being regulated down -- more like the part about the worst thing
happening is that it just won't work).

Cheers!
Tim