Easy ATX Bench Top Power Supply.

Step 3 Output connectors

One popular type of connector to use for the power output is a binding post. These handy connectors screw up/down over a post with a hole in it. If you buy a breadboard, they often come with a set of these binders integrated on the backboard. I have never liked them, and I have removed and discarded them from all of my breadboards.

Another popular type of connector is the banana plug/jack. I don't have any of these, either.

One could alse use RCA jacks. If one had any.

I used the universal connector: solder.

I took some half ounce copper pcb material and cut to size with a jigsaw so it fits over the side of the chassis, next to the hole where the wires come out.

I drilled four screw holes, so that it affixes firmly to the chassis.

Then I took out a tape measure and marked off a spot for each wire

Mark off your lines with a marker

Remove copper with a carbide tipped hand-etching tool

Test "pcb" with a continuity tester

Solder wires.

Cover the connections with epoxy, leaving some exposed pad for soldering connections to. This serves to keep the wires from falling off when you solder other large wires to the solder pads.

I added a thinner copper board over top of this pcb as a "scratch pad." I can remove and replace this "scratch pad" by loosening the screws and cutting any soldered jumpers. This provided a good place for my initial testing, and I'll use it for fabbing up ideas I have for additional control circuitry. Eventually, I may end up making a cover panel with some standard output jacks.