best power supply

[Losi..Sam]

hi everyone
im just wondering witch is the best power supply without spending £90

cheers

sam

[Si Coe]

Well you can get little laptop types ones for some chargers, but I prefer one of these which, whilst a touch clunky can power 2 chargers running a 4A without issue, or 1 charger at 9A, if your charger can do that......

[Marvin]

You don't need to spend £90 for a decent power supply, 13.8v 20A output PS is enough, even for my 1/8th batteries (6.1A charge at 25.2V). Something like:

• This power supply is £36.99, has up to a 20A output, at 13.8V and has a single set of output connectors.
• This one is exactly the same, only it's £44.99, as it has two sets of output connectors.

[jim76]

the pro-peak ones are the standard 20a supplies. half the price of the much more ones and just as good.
Marvins ones look the same just re-badged. They come in single or double outputs.

http://www.ripmax.com/item.asp?itemi...0&Category=070

[Losi..Sam]

iv heard that the propeak ones burn out easily
and could they hold :
2 chargers
novac smart tray
stand/fan
???

cheers

sam

[Marvin]

The Pro-Peak supplies don't burn up easily, I work at a model shop where we sell dozens of Pro-Peak power supplies, and latterly, the LogicRC PSs, and we've only had one back, which didn't work out of the box.

If you've got 2 power supplies then yes. If you really need that much power, be prepared to spend the money. Surely you don't need all that lot on at the same time, is it all necessary? Why do you need two chargers on at the same time? If you really do need all this stuff, try one of these. 40A at whatever voltage you want. It doesn't come cheap though.

It does depend on what cells you are charging though, at what rate, and what the power consumption of the discharge tray and fan is.

[jim76]

2 chargers are not going to draw more than 10a, the smart tray draws sod all, as will a car stand fan.

i share one with a friend and we've used ours for a few years. If you overload it then it probably will struggle, but we've ran two chargers and smart trays on ours in the past (no longer with lipo!) and it's been fine.

As stated before, if you want something uber reliable then pay the money. But i certainly wouldn't pay the £90 for a much more one, they are no better.