Electronics Recycling (power Supply)

There have been several Instructables about recycling electronic components.

However, you can also recycle whole sub-systems. The easiest to recycle are power supplies. You usually find them where a coil, a diode, and a capacitor are close together. See the bottom left-hand corner in the picture of a cable modem. (With the red border in the PDF).

These systems are designed by professionals and should also fulfil EMC and stability requirements.

Measure which voltages are where before recycling. Usually 5.0, 3.3 and 1.8 Volt.

Cut out the interesting parts with a hacksaw.

The picture shows a few of the recycled supplies and an RS-232 buffer in the bottom right-hand corner.