Bench power supply

A Sparkfun bench top power board kit let me take a 300 W power supply salvaged from a dead computer and use it as a bench power supply.

It’s a handy little kit that takes the power supply motherboard connection and breaks out the +12V, -12V, 5V and 3.3V DC to fused 5 way binding posts.

Sparkfun bench power supply kit
Sparkfun bench power supply kit
Computer power supply
Computer power supply

According to the label on the power supply, it can source 17A at +12V, 0.2A at -12V, 19A at 3.3V, and 15A at 5V. That should be more than enough for any projects I’ll run off it.

I also picked up a few of these simple little 3-digit voltmeters that I’ll connect across the outputs to show the voltages.

Next will be to figureĀ  out an enclosure to contain everything.