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Old 03-11-2010, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassnut View Post
OH NO, no, this peice of junk comes up again. Its made for testing ONLY (small print in the manual, 5 mins max). It will cook at anywhere near its posted rating if used continuously, even Jaycar cooked one in a shop demo !. I roasted 2 with next to no load before I woke up.

Andrews link is the one I use, its fine. Just dont push it past 50% of its rating.

POwertech supplies are not exactly "industrial", they are made for the bottom end of the hobby market, you pay for what you get, duh .
hi fred
i use one of these power supplies in my pod i bought it from bintel 2 years ago.it is used only to run telescope and corrector plate band and 2" eyepiece band,computers etc run of my 230v power points...
geeezzz i hope it isnt going to overload (cant catch on fire) or something silly like that!!!!!!!
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