If you are patient, you can find Sorensen/Xantrex/Ametek programmable power supplies on eBay for reasonable prices. Some of them are linear, some switching. High quality stuff. The XT series are linear bench supplies.
-Pete > On May 1, 2020, at 11:51, jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > What with telework, I'm doing more timenuts-ey stuff at home, and the power > supply conundrum has come up. > > There's a plethora of interesting widgets scattered across my bench requiring > variously, 5V, 8V, 12V, and 15V. > > I've got a box full of various fixed voltage supplies, mostly linear, picked > up over the years. > I suppose I can package a bunch of those up in a bigger box with banana jacks > or binding posts. > > > And then there's some things where you'd like current limiting and/or > variable voltage. > > So I've started looking at inexpensive bench power supplies - there appear to > be dozens, if not hundreds, of these available. There must be dozens that > are all very similar - They're switchers for the most part, displays, etc. > for $50-100, from different vendors, all similar. > > Are they essentially commodity? Or are there particular brands that are good > or bad? > > Are they all noisy? > > Weird UI problems (7 menu layers with a single knob)? > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
