| Here's the unit
(left) next to my dad's way-cool Vantage labscope, which is the next-best-thing
to and oscilloscope. It's nice to have someone to borrow awesome tools from! |
The little black
section on top is the converter itself, while the rest is all heatsink.
Those are two heatsinks that I stole from some old Pentium II Xenon processors
and bolted on. |
This is a bridge
rectifier, a small heatsink, and 3 electrolytic capacitors that I soldered
together to give me relatively clean, high voltage DC from a plugged-in
AC source. This takes the place of a large battery pack for my testing purposes.
I actually got about 150VDC out of this. |
The other side
of the power source. Those are the capacitors I mentioned; they take out
the 'ripple' from the rectified AC to make cleaner DC current. |
