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#10   — Edited

Nomad the image of the power supply is the correct one. Disregard Dave’s comment as he might not have looked at it closely.

your power supply is 20amp at 5v which is perfect for servos

the regulator adjustment is nice to fine tune the voltage as well

The power supply takes 110 or 220 which matches your region.

you simply need to provide ac mains power to the supply. You can do this by getting a power cord and wiring it to the respective pins labeled on the supply

*edit: just remember you’re going to have live mains power on the supply terminal - so be careful. Put tape or something over it after so you don’t accidentally touch it.

ps, this is the same setup I use as well for InMoov

#11   — Edited

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Nomad, your labels look to be miss labeled. For example you have the far left labeled as "L-Neutral". That should be "L-Live Wire".

Here's a snip of your convertor:

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Also, @Dj, I do agree that 5v will run his servos just fine, However wont they be weaker and slower than what they could run at. Hopefully this won't hinder his ability to move the big robot parts as expected.  But, I've never built the InMoov robot. Maybe moving the lighter 3D print material doesn't need that much power. On the other hand, isn't there a material list provided when building this robot? Do they spec out the stronger higher voltage servos and why?

One more thing; while this power supply takes 110 or 220 which matches your region. There is be a physical switch you may need to manually change. However it sounds like it's preset to 220v. Please check.

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#12  

it's the amperage that the servos will draw for moving. Plus that supply has a regulator adjustment, so he can probably turn it to 6v if he needed a tad more. but I wouldn't put too much voltage into the servo when it's already for 20 amps of current supply. At 5 volts with 20 amp supply, that's 100 watts - that's lots to burn out a servo.

The power supply is labelled and you have to make sure the wires from a EU cable match their connection... N L & Earth are marked on the power supply.

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Like I said - cover the terminal after so u don't accidentally touch it. Albeit, touching either on its own is fine but not recommended haha

#13  

OK, DJ is correct and his method will work perfictually. I don't mean to sound like I'm fact checking him. You can do this without putting too much thought into it. I was being too cautious and technical. I'm going to delete my post to keep any confusion down for you Nomad. Cheers!

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#14  

hi dave

the picture comes of a  online shop . i did not label it . i'm going to do this step by step . my first question would be , were goes the wires from the powersupply go first ? in your unbove picture you mention ( adjust output voltage by 10% ) what does that mean ? thank you for taking care of me and my robot .

dj  i will using all servo from 6 volts cause they have the correct size . so i stil have  4 of the heavy duty 7.4 volts servo's i will not be using . thank you

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in your unbove picture you mention ( adjust output voltage by 10% ) what does that mean ?
Well, once you get this converter wired up to the AC and working you can use that little pot to fine tune the DC side voltage in. DJ mentioned you may be able to adjust the DC voltage up to 6 volts with that dile. Just use a multimeter set to DC voltage as you turn the pot and you will see the change.

I don't really understand your first question. As DJ said you can use a common extension power cord (make sure it can carry the current your robot will draw) , cut the female end off and wire that to the AC side. AC Live wire, AC Neutral, and Earth Ground. Then you can just plug the thing into the wall. Make sure you have the protective cover back over the AC side and don't touch those connections after you plug it in.

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#16   — Edited

@dave

i wil not plug anything in walsocket unless am 100 % sure all is correct . you can answer my questions when you have time . first test . is this how i test it ? walsoket 220 red arrow and output yellow arrows . put the multi meter on excampe , dc5 V and the other pin on AC neutral to test 6 volt( 6 volts ) ? and 220 volt test one pin on L and other pin on GND ?

@dj

"Like I said - cover the terminal after so u don't accidentally touch it. Albeit, touching either on its own is fine but not recommended haha" when i was young about 15 old i was the guy to fix all stuff in the house . one day a light bulb in the toilet was death . so i picked my METAL ladder to fix it . it was a 1 story high building and the 2 toilets were in line same place . so i was standing ontop the METAL ladder and for some unknown reason i was on the ground in less the a 0.5 second .  i was sure that i had set the on/off swiths in off position .  now i know you can have 2 lights in a row with one live wire .cool

i did some really stupid stuff when i was young . one day i was at a friends house . and his mother walked , against a wire that came of the celing and got hit . remember i was 15 old . i found that terrible so i wanted , to prevent that from happining again . not only did i not understand what LIVE means . so i went in the house , got a knife and cut the wire . suddenly the hallway was very bright for a few seconds . i was so lucky that day , to have picked a knife with a wooden grip . the blade of the knife  was burned . half of the blade was gone .  cool thats why am asking allot of question .

thank you bolt for guiding guys like me in a safe way .