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Radio Wrangler · 9th Jun 2019, 7:21 am

You will be increasing the voltage drop across the power transistors almost by a factor of two. So heat considerations will roughly halve the current rating of the supply.

The result will be a much lower useable output power than you may be expecting, and just as much heat as it would make in its unmodified form when it would have been outputting twice the voltage and twice the current!

David

9th Jun 2019, 7:21 am	#4
Radio Wrangler Moderator Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fife, Scotland, UK. Posts: 22,902	Re: modding a 24V PSU to 12V You will be increasing the voltage drop across the power transistors almost by a factor of two. So heat considerations will roughly halve the current rating of the supply. The result will be a much lower useable output power than you may be expecting, and just as much heat as it would make in its unmodified form when it would have been outputting twice the voltage and twice the current! David __________________ Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done