Hi all,
With more equipment, especially lights and pumps, coming in DC nowadays, it means double/triple the equipment (i.e. AC to DC power bricks plus controllers in some cases) to mount and organise.
Is anyone using switching power supplies to power their DC equipment? Or has anyone looked into it? I'm just starting to o explore, but I'm not electrical engineering trained, so there are some reading up I need to do before I can tell if it's doable and safe. And of course, I'm concerned about what I don't know I don't know that are important. Electricity are too dangerous and the equipment too expensive to "wing it".
Right now I have:
4x LED
1x Main pump (sump)
1x Gyre pump
1x Fan bank
1x Solenoid
1x Auto-doser
So 7x AC to DC power bricks and 2x AC to DC wall adapter (for the solenoid and auto doser). They take up lots of space and produce a fair amount of heat. Would switching power supplies be more efficient and produce less heat?
At the least, I'm hoping to get the 4 LEDs and fan bank into one switching power supply. If not everything into 2 with capacity to spare.
On a side related note. I went to a presentation by Cisco and they are now using PoE on their network switches to power all their office LED lights in some offices.
With more equipment, especially lights and pumps, coming in DC nowadays, it means double/triple the equipment (i.e. AC to DC power bricks plus controllers in some cases) to mount and organise.
Is anyone using switching power supplies to power their DC equipment? Or has anyone looked into it? I'm just starting to o explore, but I'm not electrical engineering trained, so there are some reading up I need to do before I can tell if it's doable and safe. And of course, I'm concerned about what I don't know I don't know that are important. Electricity are too dangerous and the equipment too expensive to "wing it".
Right now I have:
4x LED
1x Main pump (sump)
1x Gyre pump
1x Fan bank
1x Solenoid
1x Auto-doser
So 7x AC to DC power bricks and 2x AC to DC wall adapter (for the solenoid and auto doser). They take up lots of space and produce a fair amount of heat. Would switching power supplies be more efficient and produce less heat?
At the least, I'm hoping to get the 4 LEDs and fan bank into one switching power supply. If not everything into 2 with capacity to spare.
On a side related note. I went to a presentation by Cisco and they are now using PoE on their network switches to power all their office LED lights in some offices.
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