I now have a few pieces that take power bricks/wall warts.
I can easily make a chassis that basically just has a no frills power strip inside to plug all my bricks. Single mains entry and multiple low voltage outputs.
It's easy enough, but I've never seen it so don't know if it's OK to do. I could even get fancy and use an iec inlet.
I can easily make a chassis that basically just has a no frills power strip inside to plug all my bricks. Single mains entry and multiple low voltage outputs.
It's easy enough, but I've never seen it so don't know if it's OK to do. I could even get fancy and use an iec inlet.
It is, yes. But since since the outlets would be on the inside, wanted to make sure that was kosher.
This would be purely for aesthetics.
This would be purely for aesthetics.
Do any of them get warm? I have several that I keep propped up to allow 5-sided ventilation. If the chassis you're considering is aluminum, a modest heatsink on the right surface might help retain decent service life.
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If you put the actual power bricks inside and not just the connectors, I would definitely use one of them to feed a small fan circulating air inside.
In principle they are all designed to be standalone in free air, not happy sharing an enclosed space, not what designers expect, so having permanent fresh air circulation is good.
In principle they are all designed to be standalone in free air, not happy sharing an enclosed space, not what designers expect, so having permanent fresh air circulation is good.