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This. These types of "power supplies" are the modern equivalent of the old-school RV battery chargers with an iron transformer and half-wave rectification.

There is also no regulation whatsoever. Using such a "power supply" without a battery in the circuit will fry your equipment very quickly. Running a deep cycle battery in the system as a ballast will limit the power drop but you will still be dealing with an unregulated supply and it will almost certainly cause hum in your received and transmitted audio and as well the excessive AC ripple is hard on electronics (especially electrolytic caps).

As Linearone said.....Buy a meanwell or better yet a megawatt brand.

[QUOTE="BC Coyote, post: 852463, member: 66242"] This. These types of "power supplies" are the modern equivalent of the old-school RV battery chargers with an iron transformer and half-wave rectification. There is also no regulation whatsoever. Using such a "power supply" without a battery in the circuit will fry your equipment very quickly. Running a deep cycle battery in the system as a ballast will limit the power drop but you will still be dealing with an unregulated supply and it will almost certainly cause hum in your received and transmitted audio and as well the excessive AC ripple is hard on electronics (especially electrolytic caps). As Linearone said.....Buy a meanwell or better yet a megawatt brand. [/QUOTE]

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