+orpheuswaking Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 If anybody is interested, I will soon have available 30 XL/XE power supplies. They are 5V, 2A and use a Neutrik 7-pin DIN with cast aluminum housing and gold pins. $15 each, $5 will ship one or two in the USA (so $20 for 1 shipped, $35 for 2 shipped). I'll potentially be in for two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I would never cheap out on power supplies, especially avoid cheap iPhone / iPad counterfeit chargers. There's a reason why these are so cheap, much less components. They are house fires waiting to happen. http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html?m=1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morelenmir Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 I would never cheap out on power supplies, especially avoid cheap iPhone / iPad counterfeit chargers. There's a reason why these are so cheap, much less components. They are house fires waiting to happen. http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html?m=1 I would second that! The chap who does the EEVBlog once dismantled what turned out to be a fake Apple USB charger... Scary just to think about plugging that thing in. Its a very interesting video and well worth checking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I wouldn't recommend a USB charger, but the 5V switching mode power supplies that come with many routers are designed for constant use at higher current. I have a few 5V/2A power supplies that came with D-Link routers which should be suitable for this type of application, since they don't use any USB handshaking to be able to deliver >500mA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I'm guilty of using cheap knock off chargers myself.I've replaced a MacBook charger with a cheap one, eventually the charger failed catastrophically. Being curious I broke opened up the case and one of the electrolytic caps had a decent sized hole in it. Scary to think that I used that thing for a year and half. Apart from being dangerous to use, the manufacturers remove necessary components from the design to bring down costs which result in under-performance (they often don't deliver the necessary performance as claimed in their specs & suffer a lot of problems ( AC ripple, overheating causing components to exceed their max ratings & eventually fail )). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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