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Originally Posted by dad911 View Post
You can use an old PC power supply for 12v. Also Server supplies, and switching supplies are fairly cheap for led/undercabinet lighting.

Understand the current requirements you need. Fuse the output. I would suspect that although with an alternator on, car voltage is closer to 13.8, a cheap 12v supply would do anything.
^this

You can make it pump out both 12v and 5 volts. Should power everything but the starter.

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