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Re: whats the rating on the ps6?

2005-02-02 by Peter Grenader

Yup!

It's kinda odd though - my experience, Blacet stuff is real power efficient.
I was running 9 of them form a single 750 Ma supply for the longest time .
Your three modules are probably not pulling more than 150 ma's between the
lot, even when they're doing their thing to the max.

Blake Wilson wrote:

>
> At 9:30 AM -0800 2/2/05, Peter Grenader wrote:
>> You're probably not going to find a single supply with both +/- 12 and 15
>> volt taps - I'v e seen 12 and 24, but not what you're asking about. I
>> recommend a couple of things:
>>
>> 1) Buy a 15 volt supply and run you're system with two. nothing wrong with
>> that. The Blacet supplies are great, but Condors are really really great,
>> but if you go with Condor, you're going to have to futz with the chassis box
>> and wiring it up and given you're dealing with both primary and secondary
>> currents, I wouldn't recommend that unless you're really comfortable with
>> this sort of thing.
>>
>> 2) Buy a 15 volt supply and fit it with a +/-12 volt regulator pair and you
>> won't need to use the Doepfer supply, although I beg you contact Analog
>> Haven to find out what will come of your D warranty if you run those off a
>> non D supply. I know you will void your Analogue System warranty doing
>> this.
>
> thanks, peter. option two is precisely what i'm doing right now: i
> have an old blacet 15 v supply and i built a little board with a
> couple 7812 vr's and run those rails to the doepfer/Asys stuff. but
> the blacet ps is choking and i was hoping to use the serge to power
> the system, but, of course, the blacet won't work that way. i think i
> might rewire things to use the big serge to run the doepfer/etc, and
> allow the blacet to corner their own supply. that would work.
>
> thanks,
>
> blake

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