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| Keywords: 40 amp 40amp acrylic clear case clearcase free stuff freestuff lab equipment labequipment orac power supply powersupply project 365 project365 transformer photo border What? Another crappy mobile shot, and still in 4:3? Has the world gone topsy turvy?!? This is the fruit of another school clearout. One of the labs was kitted out as a physics lab, but has been used for Biology and a little Chemistry for donkey's years. This is a laboratory power supply that provided a DC power rail to the whole room, and it was taking up valuable space in the adjacent prep room. Fortunately, I thought of my old man immediately as someone who uses a lot of high current DC with his model railway club. The trains there run on 24V wheelchair motors and this supply will kick out 40 amps at that voltage! I'm sure he'll provide a good home for it, and it's been saved from the skip. What I love about it is that for some reason this has been built in a clear acrylic case. This gives it the wonderful feel of 70s British sci-fi. You could easily see John Pertwee poking his sonic screwdriver into this, but it reminds me even more vividly of Orac - the small and extremely sarcastic computer from Blakes Seven. I don't know how old it is (probably a little older than me) but I'm pleased to see that Deakin Davenset Rectifiers are still going as a firm - I'm sure it must be the same people. All apologies for the crappy quality, but when I dropped it off with him I didn't have a decent camera. What? Another crappy mobile shot, and still in 4:3? Has the world gone topsy turvy?!? This is the fruit of another school clearout. One of the labs was kitted out as a physics lab, but has been used for Biology and a little Chemistry for donkey's years. This is a laboratory power supply that provided a DC power rail to the whole room, and it was taking up valuable space in the adjacent prep room. Fortunately, I thought of my old man immediately as someone who uses a lot of high current DC with his model railway club. The trains there run on 24V wheelchair motors and this supply will kick out 40 amps at that voltage! I'm sure he'll provide a good home for it, and it's been saved from the skip. What I love about it is that for some reason this has been built in a clear acrylic case. This gives it the wonderful feel of 70s British sci-fi. You could easily see John Pertwee poking his sonic screwdriver into this, but it reminds me even more vividly of Orac - the small and extremely sarcastic computer from Blakes Seven. I don't know how old it is (probably a little older than me) but I'm pleased to see that Deakin Davenset Rectifiers are still going as a firm - I'm sure it must be the same people. All apologies for the crappy quality, but when I dropped it off with him I didn't have a decent camera. | ||||
