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Re: Circuit design help - power supply - Non FIRST

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Originally Posted by Josh Siegel
The hardest part of this is making things to handle high-wattage. I hate to sound as simple as I am with electronics, but there has to be some way to use low-wattage resistors and other components in high-wattage circuits, either using the low-wattage circuit as a driver for relays or something else... Not that this is necessarily the best option; I'm just thinking out loud.
Maybe a 400 watt audio amplifier would work. Generate and control your signals at low (manageable) voltage, and send them to the amp's input.

What kind of device are you going to feed this oddly specified output to?