ORIGINAL: soyer
sorry i didnt want to start another tread so ill post it here but i converted a old atx power supply it powers and on but im only getting 11.78v. my charger isnt here yet so i havent got to tried. it. i didnt bother hooking up 3v and 5v leads. it does have a 10ohm 10wat sandbar across the 5v. thanks
yeah, that sounds alright. If you want to bring up the voltage you might try a bigger load on the 5v rail. I used 4 1 ohm resistors in series to make a 4 ohm resistor for almost 7 watts power dissipation, and my PSU runs at 12.20v under a load.