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I'd advise against building your own SMPS if you don't have much electronics experience. The component choices and design of the actual power supply isn't trivial.

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This is true. Fortunately I work for a company that has its own PCB hardware division, and the guy in charge has lent me a textbook on designing switched-mode power supplies. As I go about constructing it I'm going to show him what I'm doing and get his advice and/or assistance. I have worked with power circuits in the past - I built my own xenon strobe from a kit - so I'm not afraid, just out of practice.

My motivation for doing this is that it's probably going to cost me about the same to develop and build my own device as to replace all the wall-warts I have with switched-mode equivalents. And it seems to me that there's a market out there. However the lack of response from the people on this board, who I thought would similary plagued with wall-warts, has been less than encouraging.

Tony: Unfortunately many of them are 12V (like the empeg) or less than 6V (like my network switch). So a device like the Dunlop Brick you pointed out isn't going to solve my problem. I couldn't see anything else on the Musician's Friend site that fit the bill. Anyone?

Have fun,

Paul