The Tesla coil Soft Start Safety Box project has been finished. The first version of my soft start box for 3 phased 400 VAC loads was just that, a soft start box. I wanted to include safety features like fault detection and emergency stop, but I also wanted to remain galvanically isolated from the mains […]
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This is a short walk-through on deuterium UV lamp theory and a test of the lamp in operation from its rather special power supply. PSU failed. Lamp failed. Complete fail. The lamp comes from the teardown of a Hitachi L7450 HPLC Diode-Array-Detector. HPLC is short for High Performance Liquid Chromatography. The DAD uses UV light
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Turn your old compact Canon camera into a high speed photography camera with Canon Hack Development Kit I bypass the battery pack and make the camera run on a power supply, as the CHDK software takes a lot of CPU power, I also add a fan to cool down the CPU and optics. CHDK: https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK
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There are several other server power supply hacks available here on the site. Use the search in the menu to the right to find them. A guide on how to make the, EMC2 API4SG10 (Dell# 071-000-482) , server power supply run outside of its server enclosure. A simple bridge between control pins next to the
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This is 9! 12V/7A server fans built into a fan cluster with handles! It is time to wreck some havoc and play with fire and smoke! I did not realize just how much fire was sucked through the fans until after I saw the photage. As seen in the pictures on the forum link there
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A guide on how to make the, HP DPS-800GB Rev. A, server power supply run outside of its server enclosure. Be sure to check out the related posts or make a search here on the site for other server power supply hacks. A simple bridge between pin 31 and 34 is required and it is
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I came by a discarded full size Dell PowerEdge M1000E server rack. Full SAN, 2 large blade servers, 4 or 6 backbone switches, all power supplies and fans. This is a system that is about 8-10 years old and had a new price of around 1000000 DKR (166666 $US).It was all unloaded in a big
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This is part 3 of my DIY LED flood light that is going to be used for high speed video filming with the FPS1000HD camera. In this video, I measured the lux value to 25000 at 1 square meter which corresponds to the given lumen value for the LED COBs. The 36VDC power supply voltage
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