How Many Chargers on a power supply

[Wanted]

i have a 15amp supply and a novak melenium charger is this the onyl one i can use on this at a time ?

[prime]

You can use as many chargers as you have Amps available. So if one charger is charging at 7 Amps, you could hook another to your power supply to get 8 more Amps for charging.

Of course, if you use the power supply at full capacity for too long, it could shorten it's life span signifigly - depending on the quality.

To be safe, don't attempt to use more than one device with your power supply unless it has protection from excessive Amp draw.



[This message has been edited by prime (edited 02-21-2001).]

[Wanted]

its made by HQ thanks alot man

[FilthyPierre]

Prime is right but what you need to do is find out what constant current the power supply is rated for - some power supllies will say (for example) 20 Amps at half duty cycle which means, in laymans terms, that you can't **** that much juice out of it constantly - if you do you'll damage it. Look for the amount of constant current. I have a 40Amp switch-mode supply that's rated at 40 Amps constant, so I can happily **** 40 Amps from it all day. In reality I never draw more than about 5 with one charger. I
f your power supply has a ammeter built in you can easily see how much you're drawing. If it doesn't, remember that the charger will draw more current than what it's charging at (the Novak manual should tell you how much). My charger takes 200 mA itself, so if it's charging at 4A, the total current consumption will be 4.2A. Don't forget to factor that into the equation.

[FilthyPierre]

..... geez the naughty word filter on this board is certainly touchy. The bleeped out words in my last post were the letter S followed by the letter U followed by C followed by K. Perhaps I should have said "draw" instead. You get the picture. http://www.rccaraction.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

[Wanted]

lol good point S uc k shouldnt be dotted out but ya know its the s uc kin programers fault anyways thanks for the info
Rob

[FactoryTeam Guy wannabe]

What about if the power supply only has one output terminal can you still hook up more than one charger to it? Because I ahve a Millennium and I am looking at getting the hobbico Power source and it only has one output terminal.

[prime]

Yes,

Just as long as (+)positive is on positive and (-)negative is on negative.