Vintage Analog Devices Bench Supply
Added 2022-12-11 00:25:49 +0000 UTCNot sure what I expected to see inside - but it was not this!
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Joacim Wennerberg
2022-12-11 09:52:32 +0000 UTCPlug & Play.
Louis Perge
2022-12-11 06:51:47 +0000 UTCSo cool to see old Analog Devices stuff. Thanks, Fran!
Jason Thorpe
2022-12-11 03:57:45 +0000 UTCThese bricks were everywhere in the 80s and beyond, and it seemed everyone made them. We used some from Burr-Brown in nuclear reactor instrumentation (they also made the precision opamp modules we connected to them, so there's that). We often designed far better supplies on our own, but these bricks, when they met our specs, let us accelerate the schedule. Another factor was the bricks were CERTIFIED, which could easily be a larger cost savings than the engineering design and manufacturing costs!
BobC
2022-12-11 02:17:33 +0000 UTCI used to see a lot of these old power supplies when the company had a surplus junk shop 20 years ago. I never picked them up because they have such a pathetic output current. .1 Amps? That might have been good for the late 70s, but the size per amp ratio has improved MASSIVELY since then. Strange. They sold the module alone, and I used to see them mounted directly to old PC boards. Apparently they felt there was a market for an adapter to make connection to the module easier. Or, maybe the the adapter was some part of an evaluation kit to get customers familiar with this product line? Even today, I see elaborate evaluation kits from chip manufacturers that show the benefits of the IC they were trying to sell. It could not have been cheap to design and assemble these evaluation kits. I wonder if they were free to large potential customers like Rockwell International who had the potential to buy a ton of their parts if they liked them?
Matt Wietlispach
2022-12-11 01:56:44 +0000 UTC
