Mains cables & PSUs

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Originally Posted by Reid Malenfant

Cheers, at the moment i'm just sorting out the CDs into racks in alphabetical order, then it'll be blu rays :doh: Just found another pile of Cds, that means moving over a thousand as each goes in it's place :mental:

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Yes, I *hate* buying a CD with an 'A' artist as everything has to move to the right :)

A friend of mine has approx 5000 CDs ordered in "chronological date of purchase". :)

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Originally Posted by MartinT

Yes, I *hate* buying a CD with an 'A' artist as everything has to move to the right :)

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Box sets are or can be problematic. I had to add a single CD recently, by the time i'd gone through the whole alphabet i was moving more than 10 CD albums :doh:

Not to mention DVD-A albums with their tall cases :(

You know, you all need to adopt my ruthless approach to media storage - you'll never look back (or at the front, or at a digipack, again! :eyebrows:)

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Originally Posted by Reid Malenfant

<snip> I'll use the regulated linear wall wart until i receive the Paul Hynes PR3i regulator :)

Of course the problem is i won't be able to get to the back of the switcher or the Belkin PF40 unless i strip the whole of one side of the rack out. However i have a cunning plan that doesn't involve turnips :eyebrows:

What i have done is make a new DC lead for the wall wart that is attached to the output of the wall wart with a terminal block, when the PR3i arrives it'll be fed into a screened chassis enclosing the regulator & transformer etc. What i'm using for a DC lead is some rather nice & very handy cable i bought from Chris (The Grand Wazoo - cheers once again chap :)) which you can see here. I'm using the 14 guage stuff which is nice & thick so no real voltage drop, the cores are twisted & screened - perfect!

The cable is long enough to connect to the HDMI distribution amp & feed to the very bottom of the rack & out of the front, so when the time comes i can transfer it to the new power supply. I'm doing the same with some Mark Grant DSP 2.5 mains cable but fed from one of the Belkin PF40s & to a mains socket. When the time comes the socket will be replaced with an IEC plug which will plug into the new PSU..

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Well the Paul Hynes PR3i regulator should be here in a little less than a week & i still haven't sourced a case yet :doh: Time to get on with it as i have the transformer & everything else i need to get this thing together :) This should give a good upgrade to the picture quality over a cheap wallwart, as well as that it'll allow me to use both displays at once, though i can't imagine why the heck i'd want to :scratch:

Ebay here i come :eyebrows:

Well it took a little longer than expected as you can't account for the weather setting things back or illness come to that :(

Regulator is now on the way via special delivery :) Having had a quick chat with Paul about a load of power Mosfets i happen to have here i might do a bit of Mosfet rolling (ok so they don't roll very easily but still) :lol: As this is a low voltage supply i can use some 30V Mosfets that i have here which should (so i concluded) increase the regulator performance, which Paul agrees with ;)

PSU testing & build coming shortly in the DIY section...

Keep us informed :)