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Author:LancePenney
I am a fourth year university student in the science faculty. My major is Biology with a minor in Biochemistry. I live in St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I have a very big personal drive to live with zero impact to the environment and I think everyone else should too. Therefore I want to try to develop many projects relating to green energy and plant growth.
Image Notes 1. The coil in the relay runs at 24VDC so the circuit is made using the +12 and 12 VDC rails. 2. The lamps run on 12 VDC so the circuit is made using the +12 VDC and the GND rails
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Image Notes 1. The pushbutton switch is open so the coil inside is not energized. The middle two lamps are on.
Image Notes 1. When the switch is closed, the coil is energized. Contact with the inside two lamps is broken while contact with the outside two are made. 2. CLICK!
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After that the power supply should lift right out of the case (Photo 6). For this project you won't need the rest of the computer but keep in mind that it still contains many useful parts like fans, motors, ribbon cables, capacitors and resistors just to name a few. Also, the pins on the CPU are made out of gold.
Image Notes 1. Power Supply 2. CD drive 3. Floppy drive 4. Cooling Fan 5. Heatsink and CPU 6. Motherboard
Image Notes 1. Body of the power supply unit 2. Molex connector 3. Molex connector
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Step 7: Finished!
And there you have it, a cheap benchtop power supply out of recycled parts. In the near future I will try to start prototyping some elecronic circuits that I will need for a much bigger project that I have in mind. I believe that this nifty piece of equipment will be invaluable for that process. As always, I hope you enjoyed reading and hope you found all of the information you need for building your own benchtop power supply. As I said, there are many other instructables out there on virtually the same thing so you should check them out too. If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them in the "comments" section. Cheers!
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one_fake_user says:
Dec 11, 2009. 2:36 PM REPLY A wooden enclosure wouldn't be the best idea with this project I wouldn't think. 1 spark = 1 fire. Get a surge and the caps and resistors go pop, things catch on fire, not a good thing. Like the design though. I think the easiest way of getting a good enclosure would be to gut a second psu and feed the cables from the front of the first one into the back of the second one then panel mount everything to the front of the second one. Then bolt the 2 of them together. Minimal construction required. Nov 18, 2009. 12:39 PM REPLY Wait...that doesn't look like the computers I had so many of, that looks just like the old PIII 550 I had...it was an awesome little rig, half the parts were missing when I got it, and I built it into a pretty reliable computer... Nov 18, 2009. 12:11 PM REPLY I had 10 or more computers just like that one...still got all the mobo's and cases from them...but half the power supplies have burnt out, and a couple didn't have a power supply when I got them...:P
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cpotoso says:
Oct 30, 2009. 9:08 PM REPLY Often switching power supplies need to have a load to operate at all. Most AT/ATX benchtop power supply designs I've seen (and I built 2) employ a 5 -10 Ohm power resistor between the +5V and GND posts.
LancePenney says:
Oct 31, 2009. 8:56 AM REPLY Yes I have read about the 10 watt resistor used for the minimum load on these power supplies. However I cannot find any at the local electronics stores and I don't want to order one online unless I'm making a big order. For now I'll just use a few lamps or something if I need to draw more power to get it to run stable.
stephenniall says:
Oct 30, 2009. 2:26 PM REPLY i love the idea of bolts as banana jacks ! I made a Hot foam cutter using 3mm mdf (looks like what your using) and butt joints with hot glue (apart from i cut it out with a laser cutter)
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