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Originally Posted by init4fun
 like everything else in our hobby , if ya gotta have it now your gonna pay a premium , but if you can bide your time till the swap meets start back up , I'll bet you can find what you want for your target price (and not end up with cheaply made junk in the process) . For the meantime , you could rig up your own home made isolation transformer if you have a couple of old radio or TV power transformers kicking around in your parts stash . You'd connect the 6 volt secondaries of both transformers to each other , the primary of one would connect to your 110V AC power source and the primary of the other will become your isolated 110V AC supply to power the radio from . This , while not as elegant as a fancy pre built unit , will certainly isolate and protect your test equipment till you can get something within your price target . |
Ok, so I did find this on ebay, what do you think?
https://www.ebay.com/c/1020961952
With that I could just hook a Powerstat variac up to the 115 or 125 volt power outlet (one of those older ungrounded ones) and then I'd have my isolated Variable power supply. It would be less than $50 (for the transformer anyways), and then getting the variac would be another $75 on top of that (buying at a different time).