EEVBlog or BigClive did a review of it.

I didnt watch the whole way through to see if it was any good or not.

Power supply junkie? You can always use more power! But I went back in time to get mine. This one for $60 from eBay, this is the real-deal old-school shit, not that made in China new stuff. This is after I cleaned it up and removed the old calibration stickers and such. Works great. This is the one I use the most.

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I also bought this one for no good reason other than it looks cool. Also about $50. It works good too if you just need a few volts here and there.

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I also got this one for $10 from a local shop that was closing. Seems to work OK.

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Since we're sharing...

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Those old HP dual supplies are true work horses. Always works and easy to use (and not made in China).

This thread got me curious, always wanted a decent power supply for board work, liked the dual output feature those little switching power supplies never seem to work right when bench testing a mpu, just snagged a HP 6502 dual power supply for 35.00 should be a great addition to the bench

To start a bench setup, just grab a known working computer power supply, and buy one of those boards that plugs onto the ATX connector to give you banana plugs. It even has built in fuses.

If you don't mind spending a little bit of time searching and monitoring eBay you should be able to find what you want at a good price. You need some patience to wait for what you want to show up for a good price. Or just peruse what shows up when you search for vintage test equipment and if you see something good snatch it up. In fact, I got most of the stuff with local pickup so I didn't have shipping charges, which can get expensive for the heavier stuff. I got the nice Tektronix 465B scope that way. And also the Fluke 8050A multimeter, plus various function generators, frequency counter, and such. All that good stuff from the 80s is being sold off, and I think most it will probably work for a long time. I got the Tektronix in fully tested and operational condition and it is in beautiful cosmetic shape for $150 with probes. That thing probably cost something like $3,500 when it was new, in 1980s dollars.

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