Review of DP50V5A & DPS3012 bench top power supply modules, best bang for the buck around!

CBB for the Crow of the Bucking Booster.

How about the BBPS-###. Buck Boost Power Supply?

Are the ones on BangGood Rd Tech official versions? I don’t have an AliExpress account and I like being able to use PayPal.

I have a nice 48v 10A supply to run it with, so I probably don’t need a buck boost as my needs above 48v are pretty limited.

LOL, well some interesting ideas but not really mass marketable I am afraid lol.

Any other more marketable ideas?

What about DPA, for Adaptable?

Lazy, yeah the buck supply should be fine for you, I will be going with it as well unless then specs on the new ones are too good to pass up.

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Hi RD Tech,
I have a question for you about the DPS5015.
I purchased one of these about a month ago which i have since built a bench power supply using a 60v 13.3A switching power supply as follows
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Switching-Switch-Power-Supply-DC-60V-13-3A-800W-Driver-Transformer-110V-220V-AC-DC60V-SMPS/114960_32706081085.html.
Now i wish to have constant outputs for the following (3.3, 5, 12, 24) as well as the adjustable voltage so is it possible or how would you suggest this.
I would like to have an amps output to those voltages of around 15A, below are pictures of what i have so far.

That is not possible with the DPS series. It only have a single output and it is the adjustable output.

If you want some fixed voltage outputs as well I recommend putting a gutted ATX power supply into the box and tapping into the rains on it for those. Although that won’t get you a 24V line but 3.3v, 5v and 12v will be taken care of. You will also have a lot of power ability on those as well.

Thank’s for the fast response. I thought about that but i don’t have enough room for that approach.
I was hoping for a suggestion of some methods to tap into the 60v supply before the DPS5015.
i did find these but not sure if they will do the job.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/200W-15A-Voltage-Power-Buck-Converter-Step-Down-Module-DC-DC-8-60V-TO-1-36V-ZP-/122087936223?hash=item1c6d0210df:g:Uw4AAOSwgZ1Xs1zl

http://www.ebay.com/itm/282234704113

Those buck modules will do what you want with fixed voltages. Although they are quite noisy and iffy quality.

Honestly I have one of mine built into an ATX power supply and I have used the direct power from the ATX rails all of one time. I simply find it far easier to use the DPS over those fixed rails. If nothing else the information on the meters showing me the current and voltage is immensely useful.

Personally I would simply invest in another DP or DPS unit and mount it in the same box (the smaller units only have the screen with no external PCB and are cheaper).

This would be a much more useful option IMHO. This is also why I have 2 units myself. It is simply much more useful for me.

Although with a 60V input (it should be adjustable to some degree with that pot on the end of the terminals, might turn it down to ~55v just to give a bit more wiggle room for surges) you will need to make sure that the second unit you get is able to handle the full input voltage, unless you use anther buck converter to first drop the voltage and then feed that into the DPS. That seems a bit overkill though.

robnrie I like your power supply build!

Are you needing fixed voltages to be used along with DPS (say 26v and 12v at same time), or do you only need the voltage sources singularly?

If only using one voltage source at a time, then why not set (3.3, 5, 12, 24v) as M1,M2,M3 and M4 then they will be available with a couple of button strokes.

DPS Manual instructions for memory groups :
(M0-M9 ten groups data group)
M0 group is the boot default data group. When you extract the data group you need, this data group will cover M0 data group and be automatically stored on M0 data group.
(Extract Shortcut storage data group M1 or M2)
On the main interface, keep pressing V/↑or A/↓ more than 2s, you can extract Shortcut storage data group M1 or M2 quickly. In the same time the corresponding data group number will displayed on the right of the screen.
(Extract the specified data group)
On the main interface, keep pressing SET key more than 2s, the sequence number of data group will be displayed on the right of the screen, you can turn coding potentiometer to choose data group you need. And then press shortly SET key, you can extract the specified data group you need.

Thanks for your suggestion i did think about that with the dps or dp but when i am doing any experiments i wanted to have the ability to supply fixed sources at the same time.
but you are right that the quality of the dp or dps is much better and would only need 1 to bring it down to the 24v then regulate the others from that or get a larger housing and gut a power supply.
as for the adjusting i already turned it down to 55v wich gave me almost the 15A for this unit.

No i was hoping to use at the same time

I put mine on the lowest setting it would go, I think 0.04A or so as I recall. Touched two aligator leads to an xml-2 star. I don't remember now but the Vf was impressively low, maybe less than 2V even, but the led was clearly lit. But it would pulse about once every second, steady, and a then a quick brighter blip. I don't know maybe it's ready my ekg or something, lol. I wouldn't expect a high dollar bench supply to do that, but that's not really a criticism. It's doing great as a hobby supply and this was pushing its limit clearly.

At the extreme ends of the working range it is not the most precice device but then you don’t use your DMM set to 10A range when measuring micro-amps. So using a 15A power supply is sort of like that.

My smaller 5A unit is a lot more stable at lower voltages/currents when you get down to the milli/microamp area. It says it should be in the data sheet as well.

I have the DPS3003 and it’s great for small arduino stuff and LEDs, the display is accurate but I’ve never seen anyone scope the output and comprehensively test the thermals and output capabilities.

A decent buck/boost will be very popular

My only niggle is that the encoder knob is quite small, but it’s a very small unit so what can you expect.

HKJ did a test of the larger DPS5015 recently. It is posted in this same section i think. Basically for the price it came out very impressive.

Some ripple in the output as would be expected for a unit this cheap but far far better then most units even 2-3x the price.

It also easily matched/handled the specs it said it would for extended periods of time.

My niggle on the 5015 isn't the size but that's it one knob with a funny push-to-select-digit interface and an enable timeout, instead of classic 4 knobs V/A course/fine. But yeah... that's all money and space. The auto-lockout can be considered a feature too.

I agree, my only real complaint is I wish it had 2 knobs always “attached” to volts and amps.

I had a user PM me about one of these units and over the course of his investigation he was told by RD how to calibrate these units.

Good thing to know.

Any power supply with an output of less then 60V will work fine, it naturally needs to handle the wattage you plan on using as well.

I use a 48V 480W power supply with mine.

To be clear, any power supply with an output a couple volts higher than what you want out of the 5015 will work. In other words, if you don’t need more than (say) 15 volts, you could use a 24 volt supply. This is cool because old computer power supplies are often scroungable for a little bit of effort. So you can save up for that nice 48 Volt supply you have your eyes on.