-48VDC supply for home lab?

2014-02-03 Thread Mark Leonard
Greetings NANOG'ers! I have a small home lab which I mostly use for learning and testing. I'm likely to receive some gear that needs negative 48VDC (ie: positive ground). Mains is a typical 120VAC, 60Hz. Can anyone recommend a power supply, reasonably priced, to go from 120VAC down to

Re: -48VDC supply for home lab?

2014-02-03 Thread Robert Glover
On 2/3/2014 1:02 PM, Mark Leonard wrote: Greetings NANOG'ers! I have a small home lab which I mostly use for learning and testing. I'm likely to receive some gear that needs negative 48VDC (ie: positive ground). Mains is a typical 120VAC, 60Hz. Can anyone recommend a power supply,

Re: -48VDC supply for home lab?

2014-02-03 Thread Jonathan Towne
Tellabs stuff seems to work reasonably well: I've got a model 8001 -48VDC PDU in my lab rack at home, although it only supplies @ 1A, it does a fine enough job for what I need. Have a look at the Tellabs PS-1478 or so, which should do 10A. They're not explicitly rackmountable, but look like

Re: -48VDC supply for home lab?

2014-02-03 Thread Baldur Norddahl
I am using this: http://www.newark.com/xp-power/jpm160ps48/psu-160w-48v-3-3a/dp/97K2572 Locally it is available here for about $50 USD as new. I found it in a shop selling electronics for disco - don't tell them you are doing networks, that info will multiply the price by 10 :-). Regards,

Re: -48VDC supply for home lab?

2014-02-03 Thread Will Orton
. If you need to be able to charge a 48v battery plant you'd want the 60v version instead, but it's more $. The 50v one works fine for benchtesting equipment, at least. -Will On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:02:11PM -0700, Mark Leonard wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:02:11 -0700 Subject: -48VDC supply