Computer supplys for charger power question

[BrianG]

Hmm, you should be able to get that goop off without wrecking anything. That might be the thing you need to make this work. If you can get it to work, I would shoot for a voltage closer to 14v because the higher the voltage is, the less current (and losses) your charger will pull for a given load.

0.5A might be enough, I just personally like using a solid 1A. Only way to tell is to test it. Try it with just 0.5A load and see how the 12v behaves. Then try again with the 1A load. Then just use whichever you prefer.

[J57ltr]

Ya the goop is no big deal it's that green bubbly sticky stuff that just peals right off, you know what i'm talking about. I'll give it a try I need to clean up the wiring so I'll test as I go.

On my other power supply I wasn't thinking when I gota the resistor at a local old school surplus electronics store and found some awsome screw in case 25W resistors, but wasn't thinking that it was a 1 ohm instead of a 10. I hooked it up and the output was right about 12.5V, but the case was smoking hot. Amazing what 25W will do. Lol. When I switched to a 10 ohm the output dropped to 11.7 or so. I have some 2,4,8 phm resistors laying around.

Thanks

Jeff