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Can someone please give me detailed plans of give me a link to a webpage where I can learn to build a power supply to work with DC "car output" to something a computer could use or a playstation ect... ect... THANKS!
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Computers use +12v -12v and +5v -5v. Pretty easy to get a couple of resistors for the 5v deal, but as to making negative voltages, I dont know, maybe Tech can help ya...
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You could simply buy a quality INVERTER for power,
But computers have three different power connector styles, and these are either XT, AT or ATX. For a good computer, you'll use atx.
The problem is you need a non fluctuating 12 v positive, negative and 5 volt positive, negative.
I don't know what the playstation runs at, but I'm sure you could bypass the built in power supply and use a specific voltage multiplier circuit to supply it, but it would have to be low ripple.
If you want to discuss this, mail me at jst1@keene.edu
ShadowStar
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Making the negative voltage would probably just be a matter of wiring a part of the power supply backwards, so that +12 is the common (0 level) and the ground is seen as -12 v, but I *could* be wrong, check it with a nice multimeter on experimental battery circuits before you wire your car and computer up like that (crackle crackle)
ShadowStar
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It is possible to redesign a computer power supply to do what you want but you would have to replace almost everything on the primary side of the main transformer and rewind or replace the transformer itself. I don't know of a place you can find the plans for such a project. I am capable of something like this but it would take 10 to 16 hours to pull it off. Not very cost effective compared to a inverter...
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