Need help finding power for SSC32 Board

[XXXpeanut]

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I need help finding 9v power adapter for the board and a 5v or 6v adapter for the servos? I want to know where to find them? I'm new to this, I have the 3 axis skull built, the SSC32 board wired and I'm going to use vixen to program it. I just cant figure out the best way to power the SSC32. I'm keeping in mind that I'm using 1 skull this year but if all goes well I will have 8 total next year.

[function12]

Walmart sells some that you can select the voltage. They are not cheap though about $18.XX. Rat Shack carries them too.

[Xane]

Yeah, $18-20 is pretty much the going price for a selectable voltage regulated AC adapter, even from online stores like Parts Express, after shipping it pretty much comes out to the same price except the super cheap ones that get bad reviews and have very low milliamperage...

[bfjou812]

Try these guys, I've bought several Power Supplies from them, they are reasonably priced ,fast shipping and best of all very reliable products. Also a lot of people use computer power supplies to power their props, those have multiple voltages ,so all you would need is one to run the whole setup

http://www.mpja.com/powersupply.asp

[buckaneerdude]

Some folks just use a 9volt battery to power the logic on the SSC-32. It doesn't draw much power and one battery will last several nights. There are lots of places to find 5 volt power adaptors to power your servos but if you are running power over much distance, that power can drop below the 4.8 volts that Hitec servos require and cause problems. We run 32 servos off of our SSC-32 board and I use two 6 volt 8 amp power adaptors. They are not easy to find, especially ones rated at 8 amps. You wouldn't need that much power to run one 3 axis and depending on the distances from your prop to your SSC-32 you may be able to use a cheap 5 volt power adaptor for now. One thing I recommend is to test the output of any power adaptor. I have some that put out as much as 30% higher voltage than they say on the label.

[XXXpeanut]

Thanks everyone. I went to Walmart and picked up the changeable power adapters. Here is the skull http://youtu.be/CXor4YEu_hA