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josh-starnesJosh Starnes 08/27/2020 at 05:530 Comments

Not that I like to highlight failures, but these power supplies popped way under their rated load. Everyone likes to see things explode though right?!   one PSU seems to have a short on the Neutral Mains in line, it immediately pops the fuses when plugged in, the second power supply seems to be working however. I already have suitable ( and more expensive) kind of power supply I posted about earlier. 

This failed at about 35-40 percent throttle. I can build a custom one with much higher capacity, it is just a waiting game on parts and spreading things out over paydays. This will not keep sky anchor from flying though, there are options :)

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