PSU source for selling DIY designs..

Started by cloudscapes, October 10, 2011, 11:28:13 AM

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cloudscapes

Hey all,

As some of you know, I'm (very slowly) moving towards selling some of my original designs as an actual "product" or something. For the most part, they are daisychain-friendly so I don't have a huge need to include wall warts with them, but there's one design where I may need to. It *really* hates sharing any good power supply I throw at it (diago, onespot, ehx), but works perfectly fine with its own. Battery-only is out of the question as it sucks a lot of mA (200ish).

I was wondering what would be involved with sourcing "noname" PSUs to be sold with, and what would be legal requirements?
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John Lyons

What about about building the regulator and filtering into the pedal and using inexpensive generic wall warts?

This one is cheap and also regulated I think.
http://www.shopping.com/Dunlop-Dunlop-ECB003-AC-Power-Supply/info
Basic Audio Pedals
www.basicaudio.net/

smallbearelec

I like John's suggestion. Generic wall warts already have UL approval, which you have to have, but they are usually not well-enough filtered or regulated. If you build a filter and three-termainl regulator into the pedal, something like this:

http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=1004

will do.