ZX80 PSU Required

ZX80 / ZX81 hardware and software requested for either sale or swapping
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ZX80 PSU Required

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I am after an original ZX80 PSU, don't really care if it works or not.

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+1 for not using modern replacement PSUs. 8-)
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I had one of the original white PSUs a couple of years ago - not very often you see those!
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Clint wrote:I am after an original ZX80 PSU, don't really care if it works or not.

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I guess you are not planing to use it but display it with a zx80?
There were different versions of the zx80 psu
I don't know a white one, but two different black ones.
My psu are 99% like 700mA ZX81 units. Only the badge says ZX80 instead of zx81.
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Hi Paul, can you attach some pictures of your ones, maybe I can convert a zx81 PSU :)
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Clint wrote:Hi Paul, can you attach some pictures of your ones, maybe I can convert a zx81 PSU :)
Shure. I've put it on my todo list.
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My ZX80 PSU (not for sale,though!) is a 'plug size' type (black), some (Americans?) call them 'wall-warts', rated 600mA, I think, but also have one identical to a 'low current' ZX81 PSU (700mA type - later versions were 1.2A as my original ZX81 one was..??!) which is labelled as for a ZX80. Never come across a white one but have seen pictures of them. Note: some 'supposedly' 1.2A ZX81 PSU's in fact have the same smaller transformer as the 700mA type, just a larger value smoothing capacitor, and may overheat, as one of mine is/has! You don't need to 'convert' a ZX81 PSU, just use it as-is, and/or get a ZX80 PSU label printed and stick that on it over it's existing one to make it 'seem' authentic!
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Paul wrote:
Clint wrote:Hi Paul, can you attach some pictures of your ones, maybe I can convert a zx81 PSU :)
Shure. I've put it on my todo list.
I started a search in the chaos called zeddy room. Unfortunately the zx80 psu didn't come into sight.
But I can say that I was mistaken about the second black zx80 psu type because I found it and has a spectrum type connector so it was definitely not for zx80.
@gozzo
Could you post a picture instead of me, please?
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Today I found my ZX80 PSU.
I guess better late than never.
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Oh wow - never even realised a ZX80 one was made which was part way along the mains lead (rather than being built into the plug itself)...
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