{"id":1692,"date":"2003-06-12T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/12\/new-power-supply\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T01:54:56","slug":"new-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/12\/new-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"New Power Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"power-supply-and-charger.jpg\"<\/a>The Cosel K150A<\/a> 12 volt, 13 amp power supply came in the mail today. I hooked up wires, plugged it in and it worked right out of the box. :-) I’m very happy to be rid of my Rube Goldberg battery charging contraption. It used to go:Car battery charger set on 2 amp manual charge
\n–> block of UPS batteries
\n–> Astro charger
\n–> nicads<\/p>\n

The UPS batteries were there as a power sink\/capacitor because they say that a car charger doesn’t have an even enough output to be trusted going straight into an electronics device (I believe them)<\/p>\n

I’d have to watch the state of charge on the UPS batteries or badness would ensue. And when done, unplug the whole thing. To boot, the lead-acids were on their way out. I charged them individually last night and today 2 are at 6.39 volts, 2 at 6.29 volts. Maybe I’ll keep 2 of the lead-acids as field-chargers.<\/p>\n

But now, when I’m home, I can “Set it, and forget it!”<\/a><\/p>\n

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I -was- going to wish for An Astro 020 brushless motor with controller<\/a> from Atlanta Hobby<\/a> for Christmas but after looking into motor and prop efficiencies (see my Flying Tips page) I’m not exactly sure which motor I want. I’ll have to research it some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cosel K150A 12 volt, 13 amp power supply came in the mail today. I hooked up wires, plugged it in and it worked right out of the box. :-) I’m very happy to be rid of my Rube Goldberg battery charging contraption. It used to go:Car battery charger set on 2 amp manual charge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}