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Old 03-16-2010, 12:55 PM   #49 (permalink)
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I like the idea of beefing them up. If I was more of an electronics geek, I'd be making my own. It would be good to find out the quality of the power as well. I would hate to be supplying all that nice silicon with "Chinese dog food".

I did find a few cheapo ones with higher watt ratings yesterday:

The second one looks like a better value but the quality and ratings are suspect of course. I'm going to assume the ratings are peak and the constant output is around 70% of that.

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