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| MarkF:
I thought the BEST part is that the pots are so close together that you can NOT put any knobs on them. That alone turned me off. RUN AWAY.... :scared: |
| exe:
I think pots meant to be wired (that's what I did). Anyway, didn't check if the pcb is well routed (probably not). |
| Jwillis:
I wouldn't want it anyway because he took all the fun out by building it. |
| Atom:
soooo....i didnt read all the 5 pages of post but please .... do not use the peter oakes psu is really unstable and gave me nightmares as beginner.... do you want a sturdy psu ...look for the hp3610 series or similar, you can find the schematics and make your own copy , now what i would reccomend is the Blackdog psu, that thing is a beast the voltage moves of a couple of millivolts at 4 amps load , you can find the post and the schematics on eevblog , than this guy made a drive folder with all the info https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iKNivHfgNfMc6xBsww707_LqQOR2TIin?usp=sharing if you are a beginner beginner i would suggest to toy whit linear reg and simple switcher from ti . if you are ready to make the next step take a schematic and understand it, do not blindly copy it you will learn a lot as i did and if you have any problem you have an entire community to ask to. good luck :-+ |
| Pirateguy:
--- Quote from: Atom on August 28, 2018, 07:48:15 pm ---soooo....i didnt read all the 5 pages of post but please .... do not use the peter oakes psu is really unstable and gave me nightmares as beginner.... do you want a sturdy psu ...look for the hp3610 series or similar, you can find the schematics and make your own copy , now what i would reccomend is the Blackdog psu, that thing is a beast the voltage moves of a couple of millivolts at 4 amps load , you can find the post and the schematics on eevblog , than this guy made a drive folder with all the info https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iKNivHfgNfMc6xBsww707_LqQOR2TIin?usp=sharing if you are a beginner beginner i would suggest to toy whit linear reg and simple switcher from ti . if you are ready to make the next step take a schematic and understand it, do not blindly copy it you will learn a lot as i did and if you have any problem you have an entire community to ask to. good luck :-+ --- End quote --- thanks :) i have decided that power supplies are out of reach for me atm and am just going to make a simple fixed output one with some 78 series regulators. for a variable output i am tempted to go with one of these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/RD-DPS3012-LCD-Constant-Voltage-Current-Step-down-Programmable-Power-Supply-S1I8/253019740400 |
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