laubzega

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   by laubzega 3y ago

   Principal designer of PowerShark here. Original PS spec from Commodore defined 5V/3A, 12V/0.5A and -12V/0.1A as max. load ( http://www.kaiiv.de/servicemanuals/A500_Power_Supply_Specifi... page 3) It was
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   by laubzega 3y ago

   USB devices built according to the spec must have overvoltage protection, but yeah, I'd be surprised if all of them actually implemented it.
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   by laubzega 3y ago

   There is no 12V input to C64, just 5VDC and 9VAC. You are thinking about 5V supply, which indeed fried many computers when the PSU failed and ramped the voltage up.