Today, in electronics class, my teacher gave me the task of getting this old controller; for a robotic arm to run off of 12VDC. The controller runs off of 120VAC @ 4 Amps. The question I have is, with the dropping prices of power inverters should I go out and buy a 500W inverter, or build one? I would rather build one to learn some things. For that I also need your guys help.
P.S We are mounting this robotic arm onto our original robot. The robot runs off of a car battery. (as if there isn't enough load on that already :?)
Today, in electronics class, my teacher gave me the task of getting this old controller; for a robotic arm to run off of 12VDC. The controller runs off of 120VAC @ 4 Amps. The question I have is, with the dropping prices of power inverters should I go out and buy a 500W inverter, or build one? I would rather build one to learn some things. For that I also need your guys help.