The YIHUA PS-3010D DC Power supply – Quick Review

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:
- With the current turned all the way down, the voltage will drop to -.15 volts. This generally isn’t an issue and I’m sure that even if something were hooked up, the current would be extremely low.
- Here I test the accuracy of the voltage readout. I know that .1 volts isn’t a lot but it’s be nice if you could calibrate the display like my analog power supplies.
- Testing the amperage at a lower setting. Not bad at this rate.
- Bringing the amperage to full. The displayed value and the measured value are quite different. This is when the LED segment started flickering. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence.
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.