Build Your Own Benchtop Power Supply

All of the following components can be found at your local radioshack.

Build your own benchtop power supply.

Needed components to built advanced diy benchtop power supply. Here are some of the other items you will need. Jameco sells power supply kits and more with a lifetime guarantee and same day shipping. Advanced diy benchtop power supply will need an ac voltage stabilizer inside it to regulate the input voltage otherwise it follows kiss keep it simple stupid.

Instead we ll have to go with the next best thing and check out tron900 s mini bench power supply build. Not all of these are. It s extremely capable and cute as. It s extremely capable and cute as a button.

This isn t strictly astro stuff but the main reason i built it is to experiment with tft backlight panels that i use for my lightboxes. How to build a bench top power supply step 1. But prices were too high especially for ones with. About my homemade benchtop power supply which i built back in 1987 using an old tube tester transformer from 1951.

If you want to customize the size or output of your benchtop power supply building your own can be a good option. Browse our computer products electronic components electronic kits projects and more. I needed 5v and 12v to play around with the inverter boards and figure out their pin out. You can also scavenge most all.

Here are the most popular bench power supply projects on instructables. Benchtop power supplies are power supplies you can sit on your workbench and adjust its voltage and current capacity with dials and buttons on its control panel. Binding posts you ll require a set of binding posts for each power output. In this episode i will show you in great detail how to create your own bench power supply from a pc power supply.

Chassis i purchased a plastic project chassis measuring 165mm x120mm x 68mm but of course you can use any box capable. Big small upcycled there s even an at at power supply in the mix. In that case you need to open the psu read computer power supply unit use the input plug to supply power to voltage stabilizer and from voltage stabilizer to the psu. In my design with both a fixed and variable.

I ve built myself my own universal adjustable bench power supply. I considered buying a bench power supply. We add new projects every month.