Building things.
About two weeks ago, I snuck into the Tienda de Segundo while on the clock and picked up a few things. A bike for rexar, a old broken radio, a nebulizer compressor, and a power supply. I think I spent a total of 3 dollars. I found the power supply to be particularly interesting. It had a strange output connector on the end of a cable, and the ouput was unregulated. The output voltage was about 16 VDC without a load. I am assuming it was for some sort of home medical equipment. Since then I have been rearranging adding and replacing parts to transform it into a bench pupply. The back became the front, I added binding posts, a 2 ampere variable autotransformer, and a 0-15 voltmeter. I replaced the flaky 3A switch/circuit breaker with a household switch and a 2A fuse, and I added a 15A circuit breaker from an old power strip to the output side of the circuit. I finally finished construction today and took some pictures of it. It seems to work great. I used it this evening to power my little FM transmitter.
Pictures:
front
back
inside
In the background is my bench supply I made from an old ATX computer supply sitting on top of a 27volt supply for my BC-348.
Sleep time now.
Pictures:
front
back
inside
In the background is my bench supply I made from an old ATX computer supply sitting on top of a 27volt supply for my BC-348.
Sleep time now.