Steve's Things

The glorious PS3010D with its blinking segment and cracked screen. The front panel to the screen was cracked because I flicked it with my fingernail seeing if I could shake it a bit to make the segment work. Nope, just cracked the screen.

Having needed an adjustable power supply with a bit more current, I decided to buy this guy for about $140 off Ebay. I’ve played around with it a bit and I decided to review it because I’m sure there are a lot of people like me who buy cheap test equipment. You don’t pay much and you can’t expect much, but you can just hope it does the job.

I performed a few tests that you can see below:

So, if you looked at the values shown, you’ll see it works OK. Anyways, here are some pros and cons to this device.

Pros:

• Cheap
• Reasonably effective
• Knobs and switched feel good
• Nice high current for a unit like this
• Nice grill effect over the LED’s make it look like a dot matrix LED
• Standard size case

Cons:

• LOUD LOUD LOUD! Not quite vacuum cleaner loud but louder than anything else in my office.
• Front power connectors are kind of flimsy and cheap
• Displayed and measured values do not quite jive
• Does not have a handle on the top, it’s nice to have a handle on test equipment

Otherwise, the unit works as expected and I’ll write the LED flicker off as a coincedence. It’s too bad that it’s so loud, they could’ve used a different fan or something, becomes a real distraction. If you need something like this that produces 30V at 10A, this may be good purchase.