I thought I would split this out from the other power supply discussion to avoid annoying the OP of that thread with discussion not relevant to his problem (Here
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=131984 )
I mainly observe at home and near enough to my shed that I could run out a power cable to carry DV power without any significant voltage drop. My equipment is relatively hungry in that I have a 9.25" SCT and the heater belt for the corrector plate would tip in at nearly 3A when running flat out. The mount seems far lighter than that, maybe 2A when high speed slewing on both axis. Add them up for 5A combined as a reasonably worst case picture. Most of the time the current draw would be much smaller, even if I cave in and buy a heater for my finder which is useless after an hour or two, but the goto performance of my mount is good enough to ignore the finder after doing the initial alignment.
Has anyone got an opinion on the use of one of these for DC supply?
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=MP3097
I was thinking that something like that (10A continuous seems ample at double what I can reasonably foresee my gear using) AC ripple seems fairly well constrained at 120mV. I would just need to ensure my cabling did not stack up to more than 0.2 ohms to ensure that voltage drop was no more than 1V under worst case to keep my heater controller happy. Done right it would result in being able to have the power supply in the shed and out of the moisture and only some cabling out to the mount. Combined with a pre charged small SLA battery in parallel to the PSU in case of power bumps it should power my gear happily. Is anyone doing something similar?