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Win a Tenma Power Supply

Congratulations to our winners!

Wow! You guys came up with some really creative ideas! There were over 100 individual ideas submitted and they were a blast to read through.

 

The winner of the Tenma Supply is !

His submission literally made James laugh out loud: turning the supply into a mouse to scare a cat.

 

Congrats on your new supply!

 

But that's not all! We're going to find some element14 Community swag for the following honorable mentions:

 

This giveaway is closed.

Now that you know the basics of how to use a power supply, wouldn't it be great to have one to use on your very own bench?  Well, you are so lucky because James has one to give away!

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James is always looking for novel ideas for how to use the equipment on his work bench. . . so in this contest, he's asking for ideas on the most unique use for a power supply that maybe isn't just using it as a power supply.  (I don't think he means gutting it and using it for a potted plant.)

 

Add your suggestion in the comments below (no later than Friday, November 1) and you're entered with a chance to win.

 

James will select the winner and announce her/him on this page no later than November 14, 2019.

 

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  • In my workplace we have numerous very remote sites that perform very critical functions and equipment failures aren’t an option.

     

    These sites are over 2 solid days (one day without any tarmac roads) drive into the desert from anyone able to perform technical repairs or fault finding. Our equipment is mounted in unventilated steel enclosure in areas that regularly get into the high 40 degrees Celsius, pushing devices to their thermal tolerance limits

     

    To provide redundancy against power failure the equipment at these sites is powered via banks of sealed lead acid batteries

     

    Through trial and failure we have found that modern battery chargers don’t seem to cope well with the climatic conditions where these sites are located and instead we modify power supplies to act as battery chargers.

     

    The supplies we use are intended to be bench power supplies for radio equipment but with a few small tweaks make excellent albeit simplistic battery chargers and despite having almost 100 in the field we’ve never had a failure.

     

    These power supplies are very simple analogue affairs based on a big heavy transformer but sometimes simple is good.

     

    Although the chargers are simple we get excellent battery life.

     

    Not that far removed from the power supplies intended use but thought you might find our solution interesting.

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  • In my workplace we have numerous very remote sites that perform very critical functions and equipment failures aren’t an option.

     

    These sites are over 2 solid days (one day without any tarmac roads) drive into the desert from anyone able to perform technical repairs or fault finding. Our equipment is mounted in unventilated steel enclosure in areas that regularly get into the high 40 degrees Celsius, pushing devices to their thermal tolerance limits

     

    To provide redundancy against power failure the equipment at these sites is powered via banks of sealed lead acid batteries

     

    Through trial and failure we have found that modern battery chargers don’t seem to cope well with the climatic conditions where these sites are located and instead we modify power supplies to act as battery chargers.

     

    The supplies we use are intended to be bench power supplies for radio equipment but with a few small tweaks make excellent albeit simplistic battery chargers and despite having almost 100 in the field we’ve never had a failure.

     

    These power supplies are very simple analogue affairs based on a big heavy transformer but sometimes simple is good.

     

    Although the chargers are simple we get excellent battery life.

     

    Not that far removed from the power supplies intended use but thought you might find our solution interesting.

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