Ok, i'm attempting to make a chlorate/perchlorate cell, but i need a power supply. I was told that converting a ATX computer power supply and using the 5 volt setting would work good.

 

Well, recently, my brother assembled a computer of his own(it was an extremely fast gaming computer), but his 700 watt power supply would not turn on unless it had feedback from the motherboard.

 

I have picked out a 400 watt power supply off of ebay for 17$(including shipping), but i dont know if it needs feedback from a motherboard for it to work.

 

Here is the power supply: http://cgi.ebay.com/HERCULES-400W-Computer-POWER-SUPPLY-20-24-Pin-Atx-SATA_W0QQitemZ120439458816QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_UPS?hash=item1c0ac04c00&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A15|66%3A2|39%3A1|293%3A2|294%3A50

 

If anyone can help me out on this, please reply.

Hello friend I have been making KCLO4 for about 2 yrs now with alot of luck. The first 3 months were trial and error The best power supply I found that works good for me is a power supply form an old computer. I run my cells at 5 volts-15 amps and I get a good yield and (almost) a pure product after about 15 days. Running at these amps are OK but you must use a heat sink of some kind, so you dont have a melt down and you will have to add water about every2 days or so. I hope I was helpfull. Post me any time concerning chlorate cells lucky45

its easy to convert the computer supply to a lap power supply just do a quick google search, i did it and it was very easy.

 

also laptop chargers have lots of power my old one is 18.7v at 4.9A

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Hello friend I have been making KCLO4 for about 2 yrs now with alot of luck. The first 3 months were trial and error The best power supply I found that works good for me is a power supply form an old computer. I run my cells at 5 volts-15 amps and I get a good yield and (almost) a pure product after about 15 days. Running at these amps are OK but you must use a heat sink of some kind, so you dont have a melt down and you will have to add water about every2 days or so. I hope I was helpfull. Post me any time concerning chlorate cells lucky45

 

yea the great thing about the computer supply is you get a 3.3, 5 , 12 volt outputs at pretty high amperage

Sounds like your a pyrotec-just like me HAHA, I will post asap, Im processing some KCLO4 right now

to turn on the power supply without mother board you need to connect the green wire(pin14) to black wire(pin 15) with a cupper wire