Hello to all, I bought a Buffalo II board with Ballsie + the PSU´s needed, but those are not intended for a DIY-Project in a clasical way, but for upgrading a CD-Player from the eighties. Now, after tossing out the original D/A Board, there will be plenty of room for modding. But I do not like the idea of putting extra toroids somewhere deeper in the player´s cabinet and run a mains power cable halfway through the player for feeding them. The original D/A-board runs on +/- 15V and will probably draw a lot more current from the player´s transformer than the Balsie. So I can take the original transformer´s for the Balsie`s PSU. Also the secondaries for the players main board (+5/-5V running on a +11/-11 V Reference voltage) could be used, but here the problem starts: There is no data in the player´s datasheet and circuitry, how much VA the secondaries for the main board can provide and how much current is consumed by the main board´s circuitry. Also no label on the Transformer. The total consumption is 25W, but the player´s transformer has 4 secondaries, two of them for supplying positive/negative voltages. How can I measure the power consumtion of the mains board AND how much current the secondaries of the orinal transformer can provide? And can I attach two PSU to one secondary, or will they interfere? Thanks for your help, Nak

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