Build Your Own Benchtop Power Supply

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

Build your own benchtop power supply.

Browse our computer products electronic components electronic kits projects and more. If you want to skip right to point our pick for the best benchtop power supply in 2019 is the korad kd3005d 30v 5a lab grade supply. Here are some of the other items you will need. These are the standard tools for assembling almost all electronics projects.

In this episode i will show you in great detail how to create your own bench power supply from a pc power supply. Jameco sells power supply kits and more with a lifetime guarantee and same day shipping. But prices were too high especially for ones with. Not all of these are.

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. Get inspired and make your own. 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. It s extremely capable and cute as.

Big small upcycled there s even an at at power supply in the mix. It s extremely capable and cute as a button. 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. I ve built myself my own universal adjustable bench power supply.

Chassis i purchased a plastic project chassis measuring 165mm x120mm x 68mm but of course you can use any box capable. About my homemade benchtop power supply which i built back in 1987 using an old tube tester transformer from 1951. Binding posts you ll require a set of binding posts for each power output. We add new projects every month.

You can also scavenge most all. I needed 5v and 12v to play around with the inverter boards and figure out their pin out. I considered buying a bench power supply. If you want to customize the size or output of your benchtop power supply building your own can be a good option.

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. Instead we ll have to go with the next best thing and check out tron900 s mini bench power supply build. How to build a bench top power supply step 1.