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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 687 Registered: Oct-05 | What will happen if you use say a 18A ps and a 1 amp neon light or somtn light that.. will the amperage be too high and blow whatever is loaded or will it adjust or what....cause im gonna modify a power supply to use for my small 1-6A stuff |
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Gold Member Username: B101Queen City, NC USA Post Number: 1326 Registered: Sep-05 | im not goin to get into power supplys thats a whole semester right there! but may I ask how are you going to modify the pwr supply? ???????? Just get an adjustable power supply, that you can adjust the voltage and the amperage. Its cheap at raidoshack. You dont want to be messing with transformers, without the proper knowledge! |
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Gold Member Username: RovinTrinidad & T... Post Number: 5746 Registered: Jul-05 | Nest likes 2 mess with that sh!t - seriously hopes he does not burn down his parents house -lol...... |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 695 Registered: Oct-05 | B- i actually know how to build a psu..got a book 2..but a waste of time for me to buy parts costing somtn like 3-4-500$...a 35A psu in radioshack is like $800... Rov-im a spark and mysterious blue smoke expert so dont worry i learnt my lesson already...lol so i bought a 480w pc psu for $150 and heres what i did today.. http://wiki.ehow.com/Convert-a-Computer-ATX-Power-Supply-to-a-Lab-Power-Supply |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 696 Registered: Oct-05 | and yea i pretty much open every electronic thing i have....and by doin that i have a great deal of knowledge and can fix those sort of things,so yea i like to mess with that sh!t anyhow..i fine d power supply wokin good for anything...i gonna try it on ma small amp 2moro to see if it could power it fully |
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Platinum Member Username: GlasswolfWisteria, Lane USA Post Number: 11196 Registered: Dec-03 | the power supply will provide, up to it's peak output, the current drawn from it by whatever it's powering. remember the current draw is determined by the voltage (fixed) and the resistance (also fixed) so unless R or V changes, I is determined by those. an 18A ps won't harm a 1A device |