power pack

noun

, Electronics.

a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.

power pack

a device for converting the current from a supply into direct or alternating current at the voltage required by a particular electrical or electronic device

First recorded in 1935–40

He unhooked the cables and took the power pack from his back.

Arcot cocked an eye at the power pack, visualizing the circuits.

They came to find him looking meditatively at the power pack from one of the flying suits he had designed.

One was a very flat cone, much like a coolie-hat and hardly larger, with a sort of power-pack of coils and batteries attached.

I'm thinking—suppose I made the field with a strobe-light power-pack—or maybe a spot-welding unit.

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