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Hi Bill,
I have Lab power supplies to (bit smaller than yours) I don't like supplying more power to gear than their makers specify - unless they tell me such parts have the smarts to not kill themselves.
Imagine if I hooked up one of my 12V 10 amp Lab power supplies then in the camera's ascom driver told the camera to shoot for -60 celcius - wonder if it would try drawing all 10 amps to get then fry itself? I imagine the manufacturer would then say oh you shouldn't have tried that and I didn't enfore and hard saftey limits in my gear or the drivers - oops, my bad but you are out of warranty.
At what point do we expect the gear won't be able to handly the power available to it?
BTW - didn't realise if you connect multiple items to a lab power supply at a set voltage - most gear will only consume the part of the overall that it needs - that is clever! I use two variable power lab supplies in my astrolab - one set to the voltages required by my mount and only powering it and one to a Digitech / peltier combination running a cool box holding a Canon 40D I purchased from a nice chap here!
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