[ARC5] 24vdc power

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Nice job.

The problem is where does one find big iron these days? The surplus houses don't have much anymore. Even if they had it the shipping costs are prohibitive. I guess you can find the transformers at hamfests.

Mike N2MS

> On 09/05/2022 2:15 AM Charles via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> For the small loads mentioned here, that approach is a good one, although I have read that battery life may be limited. Unfortunately for larger SLA or flooded batteries, and switchers too, the price increases more than proportionately ;)
> It was actually cheaper for me to buy some of the components for the brute force PS than to buy batteries (and switchers).