Making a 12 volt 60 amp power supply out of a Dell Computer power supply

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6 ай бұрын

Today buckets Gets into building a power supply for cheap money without spending a lot for an expensive 60 amp. Supply shows you how to wire it up
As always thank you for watching but it's garage
Thank you to my friend #tarylfixesall For the inspiration of start in this channel
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@Davidjb37721 6 ай бұрын

That was fun. Thanks for sharing.

@bucketsgarage 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching bud. Have a good one. See you at the next one

@foogod4237 5 ай бұрын

One thing I don't think can be emphasized too much: *Always use flux when soldering.* Beginners almost never properly appreciate how much of a difference it can make. If you apply just a little bit of flux to the area before soldering, it will make it _much_ easier to make the connections. It both makes the solder joints happen quicker and more completely, with a lot less solder, but _it also prevents accidental bridges_ to a huge extent. It's almost like magic, to be honest. If the other guy had applied a bit of flux before soldering, he probably would not have had any issues with those bridges across the pins at all.

@bucketsgarage 5 ай бұрын

Very good wisdom definitely a lot of good points It is amazing how flux makes the solder work so much easier

@esqueue 5 ай бұрын

I've been doing this for years. I have one on my 12v 3D printer and 2 wired in series with floating ground on one for my 24 volt 3D printer. Both are controlled on and off using my 3D printer's onboard option to switch a relay on and off. I also use one and made a power supply to run my hobby chargers that charge my ebike and many other uses. They were dirt cheap, very powerful and reliable. 3 of them are not dell supplies. I found the schematics online. For the dell, I added a relay to disable the constantly spinning fan unless the power supply is turned on. This lasted over 4 years and still going strong in this condition helps with unnecessary fan noise when the PSU is off.. One of the PSUs didn't include a fan so I 3D printed a fan shroud that reduces size to the width of the PSU and cut open the PSU to allow air in.

@bucketsgarage 5 ай бұрын

Wow that is awesome. You put those burgers to use for sure. Those are very durable power supplies. I like using them. In fact, I'm going to put one in a sign that I'm going to hang out on my barn. It should work out pretty good 😁

@marksaxon6577 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the power supply tutorial. Mark, your neighbor in Elyria.

@bucketsgarage 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Just passing on the knowledge. Can't wait till Dayton amateur radio show all right but take care, we'll talk to you soon

@ATOMSHAMRADIO 6 ай бұрын

I want to try that for my hamradio station

@ATOMSHAMRADIO 6 ай бұрын

Love to see it on a 100 watt hf hamradio needs heavy duty wire thats good for cbs

@thisnthat3530 5 ай бұрын

How is the fan controlled? Internally or via other small pins in the connector? It won't take very long to overheat without airflow.

@bucketsgarage 5 ай бұрын

I do believe it's got a thermal switch built inside. I don't know this personally but just knowing how all other supporter supplies work? I would imagine that is definitely how that works

@odonusa007 6 ай бұрын

Is there a way to increase the voltage up to 13.8v internally or on-board?

@bucketsgarage 6 ай бұрын

Actually that's a good question. I'm going to have to take it apart and take a look. I'm sure there is a pot on there that you can actually probably turn up to a little bit. I don't think much

@DrHarryT 5 ай бұрын

Didn't realize Dell gave only 12V outputs. Typical computer supplies have their high current output 5V for driving the processor and memory. Dell must put a heavy load on their VRM's reducing the 12V down to the 1V+ required for the processor and memory. That's quite a voltage drop for the semiconductors to accommodate. Then again I just remembered there is also 12V coming directly form the PSU over to ATX concoctors supplying extra CPU power.

@lvhle04 5 ай бұрын

well most components on a mb use 12v as a source voltage.... gpu, cpu, drives etc. on regular atx psu you have 12V, 5V, and 3V. but most servers only use 12V supplies just likee his... its a pretty different world from desktop to server. there even are 24x pcie slots out there but user standart is 16x.

@harrysmbdgs 5 ай бұрын

The servers have a separate DC-DC converter board which sits in-between the PSUs and the motherboard to create additional voltage rails.

@AdamDeal-KF0PRI 6 ай бұрын

ive done the same with smaller ones but learned how noisy they get with my two radios! the noise is so bad it drowns out incomeing signals!

@bucketsgarage 6 ай бұрын

So far I've been lucky with the ones I got. They're pretty quiet. They are electronic power supplies so yeah I can see someone. Definitely probably will get noisy

@AdamDeal-KF0PRI 6 ай бұрын

@@bucketsgarage yeah there cheap and have no internal noise filtering! Just like a bunch of those Chineseium power supplies or phone chargers!

@TheRadioShop 6 ай бұрын

If you get the HP branded ones (75 amp) there is virtually no noises. Those are filtered very well. You will pay a little more for them.

@virgilwalker683 5 ай бұрын

an old laptop charger will work just fine lol

@RhymeTightAuthentic 4 ай бұрын

Yea if you only need 10 amps

@virgilwalker683 4 ай бұрын

A laptop charger plug can handle 10 amps, but the adapter determines the current and will take no more than 1.6 A. For example, an ASUS AC adapter has an input of 100-240 V, 50-60 Hz, and 2 A, and an output of 19 V and 6.32 A.@@RhymeTightAuthentic

@ATOMSHAMRADIO 6 ай бұрын

Can you put banana plug on it

@bucketsgarage 6 ай бұрын

I would think it'd be tough enough that if you drill the hole at the top part of the where you solder it should be able to hold it. I think it'd be possible

@iancameron198 5 ай бұрын

😂breaker breaker 19 got your ears on. Where did you learn how to work on electronics.

@bucketsgarage 5 ай бұрын

Hey bud, thanks for watching. Actually I started working on electronics at 8 years old. I've always had an interest in it. I guess I was actually self-taught and a lot of watching trial and errors lol It's a great hobby for me. I love doing it. I love fixing anything. If it's broke I want to fix it. It might be the ADHD in me 🤣😂

@Hammerjockeyrepair 5 ай бұрын

I modify my HP modules up to 16 volts, I put them together in series building them up to 600 amps so far, Alot of happy customers and big stations out there now!

@bucketsgarage 5 ай бұрын

O wow that's awesome! The cool things you can do with them

@johndevires5911 5 ай бұрын

Series or parallel ??

@transcanada9028 16 күн бұрын

Is there any way to turn the voltage up to 13.8v?

@bucketsgarage 16 күн бұрын

@@transcanada9028 Good morning, I think there is but very little. I think it's only going to go up a volt. I'll have to investigate and see which pod it would be to turn, but I don't think it will move. Much. Good question though

@transcanada9028 16 күн бұрын

@@bucketsgarage Ya thanks for the reply😀