Search found 33 matches

by dmwahl
Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:49 pm
Forum: Building the LitePlacer
Topic: Power supply options
Replies: 6
Views: 5066

Re: Power supply options

Scratch that brick power supply. One of the reviewers tested their supply with a programmable load and found it collapsed around 4.5A, which isn't a huge surprise given how cheap chinese stuff gets spec'd. Ended up ordering a Meanwell LRS-150-24 and will just make a cover for it. No sense cheaping o...
by dmwahl
Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:57 pm
Forum: Building the LitePlacer
Topic: Power supply options
Replies: 6
Views: 5066

Re: Power supply options

I am planning on a different vacuum pump, I have some samples of high reliability quiet medical pumps at work rated up to about 24inHg. Priority one will be to get it running, after that I'll look at improvements. I have an electronic load to test out that power supply before hooking it up the machi...
by dmwahl
Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:54 pm
Forum: Building the LitePlacer
Topic: Power supply options
Replies: 6
Views: 5066

Power supply options

Has anyone used a laptop style brick power supply instead of the open chassis type like meanwell? I'd like to avoid exposed AC wiring and then having to build a cover for it, so I'm looking at something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AJQ9G2C Rated at 24V/6A, which ought to be perfect if the...