John in CR
100 TW
I'm wrapping up my current build with a 31s pack (115v nominal). Due to the high voltage I figured the cheap and easy route for my 12V for lights was to use one of the 12V power supplies I have around the house. It seemed like my best candidate, since I expect about a 2A load at night, was the Wii power supply. It puts out 12V and 3.35A. I tested it first with a direct connection to the battery pos and neg, and it seemed to work.
Now after 2 days of wiring, fabbing brackets, fitting the Wii supply into my limited space, the darn thing is acting weird. ie sometimes it comes on when I turn on the key, and sometimes not, and that's just not going to work for me. The only thing different from the other 12V switchers I have is that it says input 110V AC, not the usual 100-240V AC.
Could this darn thing somehow be polarity needful on the input? I tested it both ways before installing (but not repeated on/off), so I didn't even pay attention to which input wire got the +115V from the keyswitch.
I don't have any other supplies that can do 12V at over 2A. Would it be okay to connect 2 or 3 paralleled at the input and output?
Now after 2 days of wiring, fabbing brackets, fitting the Wii supply into my limited space, the darn thing is acting weird. ie sometimes it comes on when I turn on the key, and sometimes not, and that's just not going to work for me. The only thing different from the other 12V switchers I have is that it says input 110V AC, not the usual 100-240V AC.
Could this darn thing somehow be polarity needful on the input? I tested it both ways before installing (but not repeated on/off), so I didn't even pay attention to which input wire got the +115V from the keyswitch.
I don't have any other supplies that can do 12V at over 2A. Would it be okay to connect 2 or 3 paralleled at the input and output?