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This Portable Benchtop Power Supply is not my first attempt at this. 2 1/2 years ago I tried doing this with lesser modules and the result was less than satisfactory. Both of the supplies in this link have since gavin up the ghost. They were rated at up to 3A, but couldn’t even do 1 1/2 at certain combinations of input and output voltages.
Last night I made 2 bench top power supplies from 2 old Ryobi NiCad chargers. One of them is Battery powered! For the AC powered unit I started with this. [image] I ripped out the original charging circuit and left the AC transformer. 22V AC [image] I had to drill a hole for the pot for the voltage control for the replacement supply board. [image] This was about $5 [image] I drilled a couple of more holes for 2 binding posts, wired it up and done! Variable output 1.3V - 32 at 1.5A shor…