 Now time for Digi-Key and Adafruit present This week's INMPI brought to you by Digi-Key, Adafruit is Remcom. Recom, actually, I don't know exactly what I'm saying, Recom, Recom. This is a cool, powerful, new NPI. I actually saw this on Reddit. I was not necessarily going there for stonks, but they have a nice chipped Reddit and somebody mentioned this power module. They're like, hey, check out this new product that just came out from Recom that's available on Digi-Key. And I was like, this is really cool. I definitely want to show this on INMPI. So this is the WAC-05SK-C14. And this is a cool idea that I kind of was wondering like really, they're the only ones who came up with this. It's an AC to DC converter, but it's in a panel mount IEC module format. So how most people do AC to DC conversion, you know, well, I mean, a lot of makers do at least or hobbyists is they'll use something like this. It's a wall wart adapter. You plug it into the wall and it gives you a 2.1 millimeter output DC. And then you have a DC power jack in your product like, you know, an Arduino, or maybe it has a micro USB or USB-C end. You plug it into your USB input for your Raspberry Pi or whatnot. And now you've got power. So if you're building a product which has an enclosure you might use an enclosed power supply, you still have to do the wiring to connect an IEC jack. But if you need something with about the same wattage as a wall adapter, and but you want the, you know, finish and professionalism of having it be a panel mounted internal enclosed power supply, this will do the job. So why not just have a DC jack? Well, number one, there's no standard for DC power supplies. I mean, like they tend to be center positive, but not always. I have encountered many in my life that are negative. Another thing is you don't necessarily know what the voltage or the current capability of each one is. And, you know, if you have a standard jack, like this is a, you know, drawer I have of all these power adapters, what do they go to? Half the time I don't even know, but I'm scared to throw them out in case I need them one day. You can get them in 5 volt, 3 volt, 9 volt, 12, 24. They come in gigantic bricks and small and people can mix and match the wrong one. And so, you know, having a 2.1 millimeter, you know, 5.5 millimeter DC, you know, panel jack, you know, you have to have a lot of, you know, you have a regulated input, and you still have to regulate it again because you don't know for sure that what you're going to get is 5 volts or 9 volts. It could be positive or negative. You have to add extra protection circuitry. Whereas with this, the RICOM module, you do not. So, what's nice is that, you know, it's an all-in-one, very durable metal case. And like I said, it has an IEC connector at the end. It has very nice panel mount ears with panel mount holes. Everything is dimensioned nicely. There's multiple variations. They all come in the same size. And they all use the standard IEC power cable, which you're probably familiar from your computer or maybe, you know, your oscilloscope or other benchtop supplies. These are standardized. Unlike DC jacks, when you get one of these cables, it's always going to give you, you know, mains power. You can get 100 to 240 volts AC at 50 or 60 hertz, which is exactly what this module can take. So, it's quite convenient. And if this cable gets lost or you have to ship your product to another country, unlike the wall-walled adapters, you don't have to worry about like a universal cable. These cables are available in every country in every hardware store. They're very inexpensive and you just get the one that matches for the country, whether it's Australia or Europe or the UK. And so, you don't have to, you know, it's easier to internationalize your product because you don't have to have people like swap out or you don't have different wall adapters. You just have a different $1 cable. It's a lot easier. And again, these are completely standardized and you don't have to worry about weird polarities or like you're not going to get 400 volts out of this or 12 volts. You're only going to get standard mains. Another thing, you know, this is like a, you know, a screenshot that you can go to the datasheet if you want to see it in detail is they have all the, you know, EMC and safety and FCC and C and all those certifications are all taken care of. So if you're using in other countries and you're like, oh, I need, you know, UR or UL or CE, taking care of for you. This is, you know, they very calm. The thing that they do really well is make sure that it's, you get really clean power and you're not going to have to worry about EMI from this. So if you're trying to get a product to market, especially, this can really speed it up because the power supply is, you know, can be a big source of noise. I'm having something that's fully enclosed like this that gives you clean power is a beautiful thing. Each module is rated for five watts, but you can get different voltages. In this case, you can see I have it hooked up to my electronic load. Even though this is rated for one amp at five volts, I could pull 1.8 amps just fine. Now it's rated for one amp, but I'm saying if you're going to go a little bit higher, you know, when you transmit Wi-Fi from your, you know, single board computer connected to this or whatnot, you know, you don't have to worry about that. One nice thing that I did notice is that, you know, as I cranked this up to two amps or so, that's kind of when I cut out, it didn't just droop, it actually just completely cut power, which I really liked. It didn't give me this nonsense like 3.2 volts or two and a half volts. It just, it was either purified clean or nothing, which is also really sweet. Like I mentioned, this comes in multiple different voltage outputs, you know, preset and fully regulated from 3.3 up to about 15. Each one is five watts. So you just do the math, you know, you can get much more current at 3.3 volts in the 15 volts. So this is, you don't have to have a separate regulator, right? The regulator is built in. So this can go straight into your board and without worry about like, oh, am I going to get over voltages or under voltages or, you know, too much noise or negative polarities. So it's very elegant. Another nice thing I like and I'll, maybe I'll show this on the overhead real fast is you get fully isolated output. So another nice thing is this is earth grounded and DC wall adapters, of course, or not, they're too prompt, at least in the U.S. Whereas this, you get an earth ground in addition to the, you know, hot neutral. And on the opposite side, you get an earth ground tab. So that you can see this is completely, you know, metal tied earth ground and you get isolated, here it's labeled, you get isolated negative and positive and it is completely isolated. Like I put this on, connected my oscilloscope to it and it's like, no, you're floating. This negative is not connected to earth at all. So that could be really useful. Again, you know, wall adapters, most of them I think might be isolated, but it's not guaranteed. They might not be. So all of these things make it, I think for somebody developing a product, if you want to put it in an enclosure, you want to just like not have to worry about people messing things up. You can't mess it up. This is standard, right? This is a standard power adapter, cable connector. There's no, you know, there's no way somebody's going to put something in this that will get you a voltage other than the voltage that you're asking for. So very reliable, very durable. The whole thing is like metal enclosed. I was going to open this up and then I kind of realized I actually kind of couldn't. Like it's really sealed. I was hoping like, oh, maybe I could unscrew it, but no, it's actually like a full bent. It's a pressed metal sheet. I mean, like maybe if I had like a really powerful saw, I could cut here. But yeah, you can't really open this. This is pretty much a permanent module. So quite nice. I think the body also acts as a heat sink for the internal converter. So that the RAC0505SK slash C14. Yeah, the L1, did you get it? Did you, yes. Tell them in stock. Again, if you need other voltages, check those out. But I really like it. I think if I ever have to, you know, sometimes I have to make really nice testers and I need to have some panel mount, you know, IEC connector. And I kind of like didn't want to have to deal with wiring a panel mount IEC jack to a power supply because then you have like these high voltage wires hanging out. I'll just kind of use one of these, right? Like super easy, super safe. Yeah, it looks like as long as your product is bigger than this, that would be like that's the cut. It's compact. That's the thing. It's like, this is really small. And you know, I think if you can do this instead of a wall warrior. It does one thing and it does it really well. So I think this is really cute. It's a really brilliant idea. Good job from RACOM. All right, and that's all IONMPI for this week. IONMPI.