<div><div>In a nutshell, some of the terminals are shorted together.</div><div><br></div><div>So one block is IN+, IN+, IN-, IN-. And the other block is OUT+, OUT+, OUT-, OUT-. The center four terminals are redundant.</div>

<div><br></div><div>That&#39;s what I thought from the start but it wasn&#39;t mentioned in documentation (the four unlabeled terminals) so I wanted to hear it from the vendor before I started guessing. It took a lot of messages and time to get the communication done. He kept referring me to documentation and evading my specific questions (wording things ambiguously and stuff and was a little rude).</div>

<div><br></div><div>If it works, I wanted to order a bunch of them for my projects but the whole support thing just left a bad taste in my mouth. </div><div><br></div><div>Had the vendor simply answered my question clearly in the first message, I&#39;d have had the product tested when I sat down. But after an hour of farting around, I put it on the shelf and moved onto another project.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Perhaps next week I&#39;ll take another look at it. We&#39;ll see what happens.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:28 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bentfork@gmail.com">bentfork@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

I thought the site looked familiar.<br><br>I certainly couldn&#39;t figure out that powersupply. You&#39;d expect something like that to have 2 inputs and 2 outputs.  I&#39;m still not sure how a 4x4 powersupply would work.<br>


<br>btw - Happy Canada Day everyone!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 June 2011 17:38, Emil Mitev <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:quanttrom@gmail.com" target="_blank">quanttrom@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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Didn&#39;t Darcy just buy a DC-DC power supply from these guys !?<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Plumb <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" target="_blank">andrew@plumb.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">This might be of interest to ModLab folks as well.<div>


<br></div><div>Andrew.<br><div>

<br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium">Aaron Ramsey &lt;<a href="mailto:aaron@ottawarobotics.org" target="_blank">aaron@ottawarobotics.org</a>&gt;<br>




</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium">June 30, 2011 4:54:00 PM EDT<br>




</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium">ORE_bits &lt;<a href="mailto:ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com</a>&gt;<br>




</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><b>[ORE_bits] Fwd: Ottawa Area Hobby Electronics Store - Requesting to be linked to your site</b><br>




</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:&#39;Helvetica&#39;;font-size:medium"><a href="mailto:ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com</a><br>




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<br><br>Here is a cool local store!<br><br>Aaron<br><br><blockquote type="cite" style="border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-color:initial">




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<td style="padding-left:5px" valign="top"><font color="#888888"><b>From:</b><span> </span>Engineering shock<span> </span><a href="mailto:engineeringshock@hotmail.com" target="_blank">&lt;engineeringshock@hotmail.com&gt;</a><br>




<b>Date:</b><span> </span>June 30, 2011 10:55 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:ore@ottawarobotics.org" target="_blank">ore@ottawarobotics.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Ottawa Area Hobby Electronics Store - Requesting to be linked to your site<br>




</font></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color:rgb(136, 136, 136);margin-left:40px"><br><div dir="ltr">Hi there<br>My name is Patrick Mitchell, and I was just looking at your robotics site.  I am based in Carleton Place, but I work in Kanata.  I operate a a hobby electronics supply store, and we have a bunch of unique items.  Our stores are<span> </span><br>




<a href="http://www.engineeringshock.com" target="_blank">www.engineeringshock.com</a><br><a href="http://www.electroniclessons.com" target="_blank">www.electroniclessons.com</a><br> <br>I was hoping that you wouldn&#39;t mind adding my links to your &quot;Ottawa area&quot; supply stores.  i&#39;m sorry to bother you with this, but we are trying to grow within Ottawa, and we have some truly unique items that the O.R.E may truly benefit from looking at.<br>




 <br>Thank you very much for your time.  I hope you can find the time to explore our website and our ebay store =)<br> <br>Sincerely,<br>Pat<br></div><hr style="border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:dotted;border-top-color:rgb(181, 181, 181);min-height:1px;margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">




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