This has got to be my best $20 yard sale find ever! After two hours of cleaning, sanding & repainting, and 3D printing a handle, I no longer need to use lipos to bench test my electronics! 

What it looked like when purchased:



After 2 hours of cleaning, sanding, painting, and printing a new handle:

That is an excellent find!
Good job on the restoration of the case as well.

What a beast of a PSU! Is the max current only 500mA?

(20-Mar-2023, 04:51 AM)ph2t Wrote: What a beast of a PSU!  Is the max current only 500mA?

The internals are from a TW6050D, so it is outputting a max of 60v / 5A

Oh, you lucky duck! That's awesome!

That's one sweet power supply indeed dual outputs are gonna be great for testing stuff on the bench.

I’ve considered making a DIY from an old CPU. Is it worth my time?

(04-Apr-2023, 01:36 PM)luispequeno Wrote: I’ve considered making a DIY from an old CPU. Is it worth my time?

If you spend any amount of time on the bench, it is absolutely worth your time. Power supplies are lovely things.

There are other ways to achieve the same. A couple of 12V (leisure or car) batteries (in series) in a box with a charger is a simple one. They can be extended with other means of charging. Hook them to a fuseboard and then run outputs for all the common voltages you use, ideally 1-4S.

In years gone by you could use old computer PSU's to achieve the same. I even have an old 12V bench supply from a CB radio I owned maybe 27 years back. Still works.

The other thing to look into if you are into electronics projects could be a spot welder. Highly useful if you want to make your own battery packs.

If you are really crazy, you can even make a DIY stick/arc welder with car batteries.