[sdiy] Prebuilt bipolar 15v supply?

[Sam Ecoff]

Hi All...

Can anyone recommend a cost effective prebuilt power supply? I am  
aware of the Blacet PS 500 (great supply, already own 6 of them). I'm  
planning to build Ray Wilson's 16 step sequencer (http:// 
www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/SEQ16_2006/SEQ16_2006.php)  
and put it in a separate case.  Hence, another PS500 would really be  
overkill. I did a bit of searching, and came across this supply...

http://tinyurl.com/yt67t9

Seems like it would do everything I want it to do, but this is  
uncharted territory for me, so maybe there's something I'm missing...  
The only problem I see with it is that it terminates in a five pin  
DIN plug, which means that at some point some student or an intern is  
going to say "Oh... I found the other end of that MIDI cable!" and  
plug it into a MIDI jack on whichever piece of gear would cause the  
greatest catastrophe at the moment...

I know that I could save a lot of money by building my own supply,  
but this is not something I'm currently comfortable doing. I don't  
feel that it is safely within my skill set, which means that it's  
probably best that I don't attempt it. ;-) I'm also aware that there  
are some prebuilt supplies that I could put in the enclosure, but to  
keep the unit as small as possible, I'd like to go with an external  
supply.

Thanks in advance...

Sam E.
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