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External Power Supply - mikolajzbb - 04-06-2025
Hi Everyone!
I’m thinking about buying an external power supply for flashing ECUs. I have found many expensive and one in lower price.
https://www.akumulatory24.pl/ideal-expert-charger-100-12v-100a-ladowarka-automatyczna-p-3772.html
Will this one be ok for the job?
RE: External Power Supply - sweegie - 04-06-2025
(04-06-2025, 01:53 PM)mikolajzbb Wrote: Hi Everyone!
I’m thinking about buying an external power supply for flashing ECUs. I have found many expensive and one in lower price.
https://www.akumulatory24.pl/ideal-expert-charger-100-12v-100a-ladowarka-automatyczna-p-3772.html
Will this one be ok for the job?
Hi,
For an off-the-shelf solution, this looks very capable. I would certainly trust that to deliver the needed power for any modern car, given it has a 100A rating.
Another option, if you are handy with electronics would be to re-purpose an old server PSU and configure it to run at a little more than the usual 12 volts. These can be had very cleaply on ebay ($20) but would be a bit of work to configure appropriately. I'll likely be doing this fairly soon, and will do a write up of the build, if people are interested?
Cheers
RE: External Power Supply - yammagamma - 04-06-2025
be careful doing the diy server psu as all different models even of same brand say the HP psu have different layouts on the boards , model number might be just slightly different or the 1 you get different to the one pictured. and output also depends on your supply voltage ie 110 volt wont give you as high amp out as 240 volt.
RE: External Power Supply - ivanivanusic - 04-09-2025
I had 25A PSU, but it wasn't enough for me... I've pulled trigger and went for GysFlah. Expensive, but it's best at market
RE: External Power Supply - ek1978 - 04-09-2025
(04-06-2025, 01:53 PM)mikolajzbb Wrote: Hi Everyone!
I’m thinking about buying an external power supply for flashing ECUs. I have found many expensive and one in lower price.
https://www.akumulatory24.pl/ideal-expert-charger-100-12v-100a-ladowarka-automatyczna-p-3772.html
Will this one be ok for the job?
this should do the job for most of the new BMW cars, and nice that it has 2 mods ( charging or Supply ) .
I have 2 Server PSU's that generate 90A total , used it many times on Gxx cars , never needed more than 70A .