2009-03-18

Recycling an old PC power supply

In the October 2008 issue of RC Heli magazine, there was a great article about modding an old ATX PC power supply into a multi purpose 12v power supply.

Since I read this article, I wanted to give it a try and in the last days, I finally had some spare time to do it. I followed the article carefully and a few hours later, I have this great 10amps 12v power supply:


It was a really easy mod. All I had to do was cut some wires inside the power supply and solder some leds, a swicth and banana plugs. I decided to do it the fancy way using leds and stuff because I already had all of that in my toolbox, but some could do this same mod without all the bling and still get a nice cheap power supply.

PC power supplies are often rated at least 10A and many of the recent ones are even rated at 15-20A. So if you have one laying around or if you know someone who is getting rid of an old computer, chances are you can get yourself a great 12v power supply for almost nothing!

The ironic thing is that I don't even need a 12v power supply for my RC stuff, because I only use the Align lipo charger/balancer that came with my T-Rex 450 and is already has a 110V cord, but it could always be useful and I couldn't resist doing this mod :)

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