PC Power Supply for my: HYPERION EOS0610I DUO II-DUAL PORT
 

Guys, I know we touched base on this before, but i wanted to go a little bit deeper on this. What i have is a Antec True Blue 480 PSU. Its a very nice PSU i have had for a while. anyway, i want to use this to power my HYPERION EOS0610I. The Power Supply has the following Values.

http://i566.photobucket.com/albums/s...tathg/PSU1.jpg
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http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/r...ectb480_03.jpg

What i am seeing here is that it can put out about all the AMPS ill ever need for this charger: 22AMPS (i think).

Question is what do i need to do to make this happen, and will this PSU in fact work with what im wanting to do? The charger can take a maximum Voltage Input Range 11v~28v. I just need a quick run down on what to do to be able to use this PSU. Again thanks guys. HELP!!!

Your charger will pretty much run off the 12V rails, so you'll want to calculate output watt max based on the 12V rail alone, also accounting for any overall maximum outputs, etc.

You'll also want at least a 10% safety margin (20% would be better), so you'll need to calculate that.

With this powersupply, it has a full max load of 264watts on its 12v rail.

If you go to newegg.com and search for powersupplies, just make sure you find one that has a single 12V rail. Many of the newer power supplies have dual 12v rails and I'm unsure if you can splice them together. Because of this, it is simpler to find one with a single 12v rail to run off of. Some of them have 12v rails capable of 60-70amps, plenty to power your charger.

so i would just splice the wires from the PSU to the Charger and be done?

Corsair 650W PSU has one 52A 12V rail.

been using it in my PC for over a year.

not all corsairs have single 12V rail. it depends who makes them. 650W version is made by CHWT

That all good, and thanks. what im looking for is do i just wire the PSU straight to the Charger with the 12v rail? + to + - to - ??

You could also find a cheap (but decent quality) 12v lead acid charger, along with a 12v lead acid battery and use that as your power supply. That way you can even do a few charges when you don't even have power, like if you go out the texas chainsaw massacre site to run your R/C? :neutral:

The battery can even be an old battery that was deemed unworthy for auto starting anymore.

mentat, you do plus and minus to plus and minus, and plug it in. if it doe not work, you have to connect the green wire to any black wire. this takes the PSU out of standby mode

Here are some more pics. Just want to make sure i dont mess anything up. Here is what i have labled. Just let me know if i need to do something else other then wire up the 12v to my CHARGER? thanks again guys.

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yes thats the correct green wire - Just cut and solder to a black and then shrink...

It says you have a single rail 12V+ All those yellow wires should connect in the PSU in the same place...

You just need 3/4 yellow and 3/4 black - soldered together to + and -

Arc, are u saying that i should take 3 to 4 yellow and 3 to 4 black and solder together? If so do i get the yellow and blacks from the other wires that i have sorted? Solder and then good to go? Or do i only take the yellow and black from the 12v rail?

Yellow should all be 12+v and based on specs from 1 rail - but look inside psu to confirm

Blacks are all ground - again should all be linked

So gather up all the Yellow and all the Black then solder them together? Yellow is + and Black is - correct? This is provided that they all run to the same area on the PSU?

So is it ok to only gather up the 2 yellow and the 2 black off the 12v and just solder those? or do i need the others?

2 of each would be fine. also, solder the green wire to any black wire. all the rest you can cut off and isolate, desolder, etc.

Or i can do it for ya if you are too nervous. Ive done this quite a few times already.

ok thanks. why are others using multi yellow and black wires for?

it's similar to running batteries in parallel. they are combining the separate rails.

since you only have one 12v rail, aka one source, it does not matter how much or how little wire you use, as there will be no performance difference.

also, consider if you drop your charger or powersupply. will it be easier for 2 wires to break, or for 2 sets of 3 wires braided together?

I would use at least a few wires. Possibly the two black and two yellows on that small connector with a a couple yellow and blacks from that big ass jumble on the left side.

If you use just 1 wire, I don't know if it will support the current, unless you open up the power supply and find the rail source and solder up some nice 14 or 12 gauge to that.

well i got it all setup. So will my HYPERION EOS0610I DUO II-DUAL PORT take it from here? I mean the 12v rail i am using is supposed to supply 22Amps. Will the Charger only use what it needs? I know very little about this charge, honestly its prob more then i need. I know it does 10AMPS is it 10amps each port? or is 5amps each port for a total of 10amps? I dont really understand what this charge is capable of i guess. HELP!

Current is pulled not pushed i always say. Your charger will only PULL as much as it needs, the powersupply wont stick 22 amps in it all the time. i would assume the charger is rated 10 amps overall however i am not familiar with it.