OK, I’ve stated here on Swaylocks that my battery charger works great as a hot wire power source. It does. The problem? I have three battery chargers. Only one works to power a hot wire. The other two work as battery chargers but have some sort of “smart circuitry” that senses a short and won’t allow current output through a hot wire.
The charger that works fine is an older cheap one with no bells and whistles.
Before anybody goes out and buys one that won’t work, maybe somebody can help out on this? I.E. what should you look out for to avoid this problem?
hey john
yep thats a problem .some do some dont.
Im using a variable lab power suppply which can be short circuted no worries
is there a way you can test this
usually it would say on it if it has circuit protection
you could open it up and bypass the circuit strait from the transfomer, i guess that should work.
i imagine it would get quite hot unless it was heatsinked or a has a fan
you could rig up a pc fan i guess,to keep it cool
i was thinnking about trying a PC power supply.
they got the guts but proly have circuit protection??
im tuned in to the use of old water bed bladders as a premade high quality vacuum bag though.
they can gotten quite cheap in ebay
buy the whole bed and ask them to chuck the bed and just send the bladder.
Or you could do the Hilbilly method, jes plug an ol electrick cord in toooo that there wall socket, n have a go at it. nothin, 110 wont cut thru.