maanantai 25. joulukuuta 2017

Power supply #2


I've had this lab power supply for close to ten years now. It was pretty cheap, with pretty typical specs (3 outputs, 1 with fixed 5v output, two adjustable 0-30v and 0-3A), and it wasn't used much. Lately it started to annoyingly click its relays when nothing was going on (supply was good all the time), so I moved it to aside and got another cheap one, with similar specs. After all, this was not used much so why spend too much...

Then that one broke too (not long after warranty period. Figures...)  Now it shows maximum current all the time and limits voltage accordingly. So it's useless. And I found out that no, that power supply was actually used a lot. All the time, actually, but since things I used it for were simple and brief - testing small things and what not - those didn't feel much. Until I didn't have that supply any more.

Suddenly things started to get difficult to get done, with that one testing station effectively out of order.

Guess it's time to find yet another supply. Maybe one that is bit more reliable (i.e., expensive) this time...

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