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I ended up powering my Smith Brother's TV and Appliances with an old computer ATX Power supply. I bought the breakout board for around $8 on Amazon and mounted it to the ATX case on plastic standoffs. The outputs are all DC +3.3v, +5v, +12v, and -12V. If you use the -12v output in place of the common, you can get additional outputs: 15.3v (-12v + 3.3v), 17V (-12v + 5v), and 24v (-12v + 12v).

It turns out that my building works fine on 12v, 15.3v, 17v, and 24v. Brightness varied some, but all lights and the flickering TVs worked at all voltages. The grey wire is connected to +.

Bob

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