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· Recommended 2-3A. If you buy cheap ones on eBay or Aliexpress be careful, most of them are undersized and will give low voltage or problems at startup. Very low cost SMPSs may couple electrical switching noise back onto the AC power line, causing interference with Audio/Video equipment and any other electronic equipment connected to the same AC phase. I can not guarantee to work with all of them, some dirty cheap will cause an overvoltage at startup and Trigger the device, but your C64 will be protected. Using a branded power adapter is the best: RS, MeanWell, CUI, D-Link... Tested with 3 original C64 power supplies, C64 breadbin, C64C and 4 differents 5V DC adapters, one of them 5V 2A from ebay ($2.5) gives low voltage warning and runs really hot but C64 still working, the other.
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