12V Power Supply

[Duane Attaway]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> What would the electron pushers here recommend for a 12-14V power supply
> for testing automotive instruments?

What kind of automotive instrument?  12 to 16 volts work, so many laptop
power supplies will do if the current draw is under 5 amps.  

A spare power supply from a desktop computer puts out a good several amps
which I often use.  Some people may cry about that and say these switching
supplies will not work that way, but I guess they never tried it.  The 
output really isn't that bad.

Car batteries also make wonderful power supplies too from what I hear.