What was the hassle? Where did you get the transformers?
Is that a nice glass of scotch in the corner of that picture?
The hassle is fitting everything in there and getting it all hooked up...tiny hands would be better suited for this. If the power supply is not in the case, you can just shove the wires through, solder it all up outside of the case, then pull the slack back out.
I used the housings from Northern Tool for this batch of Aethers. The transformer does fit between the molded screw posts, but has to be mounted upside down to provide enough clearance for the huge cap on the circuit board. Even then it's really close to the rectifiers heatsink which gets really hot and heats that whole area up. The power supply itself doesn't seem to generate much heat, but I'm sure that its poor quality would quickly degrade even further with all that heat.
In summary, it worked but I just don't trust it for some reason. I've got too much invested to risk a $3 power supply somehow frying my Aether.
The transformers are all over ebay; heres one link:
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