Modding a car charger to a variable power supply

6/19/2011

For an upcoming road trip, [Patrick] needed a small variable power supplyInstead of lugging around a bench supply, [Patrick] did the sensible thing and reverse engineered a cell phone charger to fit his requirements.

After cracking open an old Kyocera car charger, [Patrick] found a small PCB with completely labeled, all through-hole components – [...].

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