There really is no reason to wait as our radical new mystery supply will be sold both as a separate product and as an add-on to a REGEN kit. Below is a repost of an update I made in
the thread about the new LPS, detailing how it will be sold. The SMPS that presently comes with the REGEN will become the "energizing" supply for the new DC>DC supply (but it is NOT a battery supply!).
Alright, guess it is time for an official update on the mystery piece:
John and I recently made some heavy technical decisions on the development of our new supply (the whole thing really is a mind-blower and even has an FPGA in it) so that the "brains" of it can be used and scaled in multiple ways--for both licensing to other manufacturers, DIY, and vastly higher amperage versions (such high-amperage versions would not be for at least another year and the first of such will likely be a good bit more expensive than a JS
-2--so don't stop ordering JS
-2s!). So the release of the affordable, 1A, 5/7V version--for REGEN and other uses--has been delayed until very early 2016.
Given the nature of what we are attempting, it is better to do it right than to do it fast. Still, John is working furiously (but happily) on it many hours per week. It is just that PCB turn-around time, coding, testing, etc. all make the weeks roll by.
With regards the selling plan: The new supply (think I even posted a picture of the case upthread somewhere) will initially be sold 3 ways (but the unit itself is always exactly the same):
1) As a complete and usable by anyone product--needing a selectable 5V/1A, 7V/1A--kit with a 12V/1.5A SMPS
"energizing" unit;
2) As an add-on for people who already have a REGEN and will use the 7.5V/2.93A SMPS
that came with the REGEN to "energize" the new supply (Or for those who have some other suitable LPS
or SMPS
they wish to feed it--12V/1.5A, 9V/2A, or 7.5V/2.5A min.; remember, the "energizing" supply will have ZERO effect on the final output, but if the rest of your system does not like SMPS
harmonics injecting into the mains then an LPS
could be chosen--LPSs, unless choke-filtered, also kick crap back into the wall--just at much lower frequencies.)
3) As a bundle with a REGEN, in which case the powering SMPS
is likely to be an easier to source and perhaps slightly small 12V/1.5A unit.
Variations "2)" and "3)" will offer a modest savings since one less SMPS
need be shipped.
And all versions will come with a 70cm, 16awg coax with 5.5mm x 2.1mm plugs at both ends. This is a custom cable I had 1,000 units made of--and with a right-angle plug at one end per some requests. Here is a pic:
Hope that helps a bit. Oh, and here is a pic of a REGEN sitting on top of the enclosure that the mystery LPS will come in:
(note that the front/back panels have not been machine or silkscreened yet, this is just a sample box from my Japanese enclosure supplier)
Best,
--Alex C.
UpTone Audio LLC