Uh...Jeezus..... Look, don't you guys think there's a bit of a difference between offering designs
for (whom I assume to be) beginners to build or use, and offering designs to those same beginners that could easily harm them? That is the basic premise under which I was posting, so if you missed it, sorry for you.
@ SigEpBlue
You cant be serious?
You think electronic designs should be kept secret?
Who pissed in your Rice Krispies? When the hell did I say I'd keep things secret? Go get your Magic 8 ball recalibrated.
Now stop telling what other people can and cant do, and try to help them instead.
That is the most hypocritical sentence I've read in years.
The FCC are made by people with your mindset
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA No, those people are prudes that never have sex and think penis is a dirty word.
Rather poinless concern as long as noob searches like "atx bench power conversion" produce 364000 hits on google...
Besides it's not your concern what somebody does with a (any) power supply. All that you have to worry about as designer is that the product itself is safe.
Good points. I just wanted (and apparently failed) to convey that I wasn't reaching for the same audience as Dave,
that my design is nothing unique or special, but I still have concern for the end user. I don't want people to get hurt due to something I did, that's all; I don't think anyone should fault me for being a humanitarian. You made me realize that this may be an unrealistic goal in the end though. But yes, my product will be very safe in its final form.
I cannot work out if SigEpBlue's post about his power supply design is serious or a joke. It is exactly the same as Dave's design, and yet totally different.
Okay then...I'll try to make it more simple for you: it is a triple-channel DC source, but with more ampacity than Dave's design. You could almost arc weld with it if you found an adequate transformer (which again, is reason for my earlier concern: high amperage can cause problems, especially for those that do not know better). Mine uses completely different ICs, but shares the aspects of having a digital encoder, current sensing, I2C, etc.
Nothing special there. It's just capable of more output, and we happened to be developing our projects at the same time. I find coincidence intriguing, especially when it's a personal project.