If you are looking for beast mode power supply.

[gus6464]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TDK-Lambda-Vega-650-Power-Supply-V60771R-TESTED-WORKING-MANY-AVAILABLE-/111446859639?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19f2c01f77

 

5, 12, and 48V rails all in one. Not waterproof but destroys any meanwell or ebay special you can get at 1/5th the price.

[evilc66]

Beast Mode indeed. For anyone looking at these, don't let the price fool you. TDK Lambda power supplies make Meanwells look like the cheap off brand units. These are $1150 new.

[gus6464]

Mine already shipped so I'll post some pics on Wednesday when it gets here for those on the fence. Even with a Noctua fan upgrade the unit only costs $50 and makes a $500 meanwell look like a cheap toy.

[jedimasterben]

deeeeayum

[hey]

gotta love ebay for used or excess medical, industrial, and apparently electrical equip. I have a few rly cool pieces ordered for a dual stage regulator build I have been working on. scored a 500ish$ stainless steel needle valve for like 40$ aswell as a nice SS solenoid.

[jedimasterben]

gotta love ebay for used or excess medical, industrial, and apparently electrical equip. I have a few rly cool pieces ordered for a dual stage regulator build I have been working on. scored a 500ish$ stainless steel needle valve for like 40$ aswell as a nice SS solenoid.

I recently got a sweet Concoa stainless dual stage regulator for $60. Just upset that sweet stainless needle valves are stupid expensive and I've never been lucky to find them on ebay lol

[hey]

I recently got a sweet Concoa stainless dual stage regulator for $60. Just upset that sweet stainless needle valves are stupid expensive and I've never been lucky to find them on ebay lol

 

mines a parker hannifin h3l hr series metering valve with whatever the model number was for the right npt fittings, sometimes you get lucky and find a dealer selling about 100 at a time which is how i got mine and my burkert 2822 ss solenoid was like 20$ lol. its a 24v dc one thats supposedly better than the 6011. I am still looking for good deals on Stainless steal wika gauges in the right pressure range.

 

The body is stainless but the pressure range isn't ideal but it was like 20$ aswell so it will work fine unless I can find a sweet SS body in the 100$ range that already has cga 320 fittings...

[gus6464]

Figured I would update this thread for the people that got in on these as I did the fan replacement last night. This noctua is a direct replacement and requires no special tools or connectors.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-60x25mm-Blades-Bearing-Premium/dp/B009NQMESS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428516391&sr=8-1&keywords=noctua+60mm

 

The power supply already has a mini 2-pin fan connector so all you do is disconnect old fan and insert the noctua. The noctua comes with a 3 pin connector so all you do is connect the red and black pins. The power supply is now silent and pushing 200W it's cold to the touch.

[blasterman]

Having worked in Enterprise IT for decades typically when somebody says "this product is better" I ask them to quantify why it's better, and if they can't I dismiss the comment. The fact it's available used and for cheap on Ebay doesn't tell me much other than it may have served as a catch valve for hydrolic fluid or worse.

 

I have bunches of MeanWell DC supplies in the 150-200watt range, and have never had a glitch with one. They also don't use fans, nor would I purchase one for my purposes with fans because fans typically mean they are engineered for active thermal management and fans mean moving parts that are prone to stop working when they encounters things like salt, cat hair, leaves...etc.

 

So, if I sold one of my MeanWell supplies on Ebay for dollar would that make it superior to the Lamda? I think not...and that's my point.

 

For the record I'm not so thrilled about the reliability of Mean Well DC/DC buck-boost drivers and found them less reliable than $1.00 Chinese versions (albeit far less efficient). I have not had a chance to beat on Mean Wells' step up drivers, but will so shortly in an upcoming lighting project.

[gus6464]

Having worked in Enterprise IT for decades typically when somebody says "this product is better" I ask them to quantify why it's better, and if they can't I dismiss the comment. The fact it's available used and for cheap on Ebay doesn't tell me much other than it may have served as a catch valve for hydrolic fluid or worse.

 

I have bunches of MeanWell DC supplies in the 150-200watt range, and have never had a glitch with one. They also don't use fans, nor would I purchase one for my purposes with fans because fans typically mean they are engineered for active thermal management and fans mean moving parts that are prone to stop working when they encounters things like salt, cat hair, leaves...etc.

 

So, if I sold one of my MeanWell supplies on Ebay for dollar would that make it superior to the Lamda? I think not...and that's my point.

 

For the record I'm not so thrilled about the reliability of Mean Well DC/DC buck-boost drivers and found them less reliable than $1.00 Chinese versions (albeit far less efficient). I have not had a chance to beat on Mean Wells' step up drivers, but will so shortly in an upcoming lighting project.

 

I find this funny since I work in enterprise IT and anyone can tell you in 1 second the difference between a Cisco 2950 and say a Netgear managed switch and that is uptime. That single feature alone is worth the extra $1000 the Cisco commands. Same exact thing with the Lambda.

 

So I am guessing you will be running passive cooling on your upcoming lights?

 

A lot of these surplus units are used in environments which require them to be replaced in 2-3 years whether they work or not. Were they made to just work for that long? Absolutely not. In our environment these things can work for years before they fail.