Gene, you have a package on the way... a little lagniappe from me.

JT


On 12/28/2016 7:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 December 2016 17:42:29 John Thornton wrote:
>
>> Hi Gene,
>>
>> Want to test one of my 5v 3a regulated power supplies?
>>
>> JT
> A linear I'd assume.  Details @url?
>
> This one?
>
> http://mesaus.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=67&product_id=73
>
> Thats not a linear.
>
> At that $$, I can afford to "test" it, but your web page doesn't like my
> FF, so I am stuck at the checkout steps display but its all DIW from
> here. I'll call tomorrow and pass the card nums.
>> On 12/28/2016 4:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings everybody;
>>>
>>> Now I am asking a question that I should know the answer to.
>>>
>>> It looks like, from the evidence so far, that this 5v 4a little
>>> switchmode psu should be sent to the fcc and let them ban it from
>>> ever coming off the boat or airplane on US soil.
>>>
>>> Its "static" ground terminal is common to the case, and I have now
>>> grounded it by way of a couple flat braided ground straps about
>>> 5/16" inch wide, back to the ground bolt in the bottom of the box.
>>> Ditto the static ground on the z motors 60 volt psu. House static
>>> coming in is now also bolted at that stud.  The scope probes ground
>>> lead is on that stud, the clipon probe is clipped to one of the
>>> ioconnectors ground pins.
>>>
>>> That point is bouncing around 2.5v p-p with the switching activity
>>> in that psu.  That bolt s/b common to the lathes bed casting thru
>>> the bolts that mount it on a post bolted to the chip pan, which is
>>> braced by an angle iron bolted to this post, with the end of the
>>> angle, about 8" away, bolted solidly to the bed casting at the other
>>> end.
>>>
>>> I purposely did not connect anything in the at667 encoder wireup, to
>>> the frame anyplace.  If I could find a good, real dirt ground for
>>> the scope probe, I take bets that the whole latch is bouncing at
>>> least 25  volts p-p to that real ground.
>>>
>>> The only way I can see ATM, is to install some "longitudinal"
>>> filters, therefore chokeing that noise back into the psu instead of
>>> giving it something to work against in the form of a solid
>>> connection to the powerline.  I can source such a filter from Dave
>>> at the tv station as I know he has a pile of failed monitor pcb's,
>>> all of which will have good filters we can excavate.
>>>
>>> Or should I take the chance that the next one I buy on fleabay,
>>> would be quiet?  Your call.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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