the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame - Page 7

c_hegge · 01-26-2011, 03:44 AM

It was, but it's dead now.

370forlife · 01-26-2011, 06:07 AM

Somewhat modern design. Two transistor forward, but no PFC.

c_hegge · 01-26-2011, 04:01 PM

It may be modern, but it's still a gutless wonder. I expect better for $55.

Agent24 · 01-26-2011, 06:55 PM

$55 for THAT? I guess it's because it's got Gigabyte all over it.. what a ripoff.

Badcappy · 01-27-2011, 01:45 AM

That's an odd one. The part number 250-60HNN I can see on the PCB means it was probably designed for 250W, but there's no FSP of that model; instead there's a 250-60HHN (http://www.fsp-group.com.tw/english/...=176&proid=658), which is supposed to have a bottom-mounted 12cm fan. Perhaps a special part# for OEM, or maybe even a clone of the FSP?

The ratings are strange too since they match up with none of the FSP models and the 12V rails are far out of balance (one at 8A, one at 14?) A little surprising and disappointing to see a big manufacturer like Gigabyte overrating its PSUs.

Agent24 · 01-27-2011, 01:56 AM

I'm not surprised, Gigabyte are the masters of marketing hype (Or so someone told me once)

c_hegge · 02-25-2011, 08:37 PM

TT ATX-400, Burned input filtering and busted caps on the secondary. All the caps are YC/Yang Chun brand.

momaka · 02-25-2011, 09:27 PM

Looks like one of the "safety" Y caps shorted. Proper Y caps are supposed to go open when they fail. Or perhaps the coil arced over.
Yet another low end Solytech.

kaboom · 02-25-2011, 10:30 PM

Thermistor blew out, and filter choke burned up, 'cause switchers and/or primary rectifiers shorted. If you could believe its rating, the fuse is probably 8A. Mmmm... chip of the year.

Looks like that 'steel' was excess left over from the cheep 'n nasty scrapheaps disguised as cases. Gotta love the caps... Look! They used a TO-220 case rectifer for the 12v supply instead of two 3A FR diodes soldered to one of those stupid brackets...

Hipot the bastard and make the world a better place

-Paul

c_hegge · 03-01-2011, 05:42 PM

Gotta laugh at the label on this.
"High Grade Ower Upply"

No input filtering, Secondary caps are all Fuhjyyu and, surprise surprise, one Chemi-Con, No PI Filter coils

Other interesting thing is that there is no indication of where it was made. I'm assuming in China by HongKongFlyApart Company ®, LLC or in Taiwan by TaiwanBreakDownComponents Company ®

Scenic · 03-01-2011, 07:53 PM

JDDA? wannabe ADDA?

c_hegge · 03-01-2011, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scenic

JDDA? wannabe ADDA?

That's what I was thinking

momaka · 03-01-2011, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by c_hegge

"High Grade Ower Upply"

Hey, it must be high grade - it's got a single United Chemicon capacitor. Makes up for all the other missing parts, doesn't it?

At least it's somewhat honestly rated at 180W, though. Powmax would label this 880W.

Scenic · 03-03-2011, 09:46 AM

L@hoo(.de) noname POS. came out of an Athlon64 3700+ (Socket 939) system..
i didn't even bother testing it.. opened it up and..well.. good thing i never tried to turn the system on with it

lahoo.de actually redirects to some kinda unknown company/shop named ONE.
the wiring on this is really pathetic.. 20AWG, with some 22AWG (!) thrown in the mix.. omg..
caps are all Canicon and SC/CS (the saturn logo) + 2 brown Su'scon on the secondary (which are actually the only non-bulging ones

)

**ratdude747** · 03-03-2011, 12:59 PM

you mean YC for the saturn logo? thats them.

Agent24 · 03-03-2011, 02:19 PM

At least it has an input filter???

Why bother, with capacitors like that...

Actually it looks like one of the less-crap Hyenas. The square grille gives it away.

b700029 · 03-03-2011, 03:41 PM

LC-xxx model number, "2003" or "2002" PWM chip, phenolic board... it's another rebrand of the infamous L&C.

Schematic ("200W" but they probably just reuse the same one for the "300" and "350"):
http://www.apaczai.elte.hu/~04ahgy/P...0_atx_2003.gif
(I'd trust this schematic the same as I'd trust that PSU, since they seem to have drawn it with the 5 and 3.3v connected together

)

Agent24 · 03-03-2011, 03:57 PM

That makes sense, L&C, Hyena, Deer, Allied, Apex and Solytech (and others, including this one I guess) are all the same thing.

Thanks for the schematic!

c_hegge · 04-22-2011, 05:49 AM

Sorry, I just can't let a good thread like this die. I got my hands on another Sky 550W-P4 unit, and, as well as load testing it, I put it on the oscilloscope. It failed after about 10 seconds at 250W load (no explosions this time though. I don't know what went wrong, but I don't care either), and at 200W, the ripple was out of spec on the 5 and 3.3v rails.

Agent24 · 04-22-2011, 06:40 AM

Was that with dead capacitors or brand new?

01-26-2011, 03:44 AM	#121
c_hegge Unknown Join Date: Sep 2009 City & State: North Coast, NSW My Country: Australia Line Voltage: 240V 50Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 3,422	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame It was, but it's dead now. __________________ I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!! Main PC: Core i5 660 3.33GHz, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R, 4GB Kingston DDR3 1333, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, nVidia GTX295 1760MB, Antec 1200 Case, Delta DPS-750CB 750W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows XP Pro. Main Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad T60: Core 2 T2500 2GHz, 2GB DDR2, 80GB HDD, DVD RW, Intel Graphics, Windows XP Pro. 2nd Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A200: Core Duo 1.73GHz, 2GB DDR2, 60GB HDD, DVD RW, nVidia GF Go 7300 Graphics, OpenSUSE 12.2, Fan Mod

01-26-2011, 04:01 PM	#123
c_hegge Unknown Join Date: Sep 2009 City & State: North Coast, NSW My Country: Australia Line Voltage: 240V 50Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 3,422	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame It may be modern, but it's still a gutless wonder. I expect better for $55.

01-26-2011, 06:55 PM	#124
Agent24 Fuhjyyu Killer Join Date: Oct 2007 City & State: Behind a soldering iron My Country: New Zealand Line Voltage: 230V AC 50Hz Posts: 1,615	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame $55 for THAT? I guess it's because it's got Gigabyte all over it.. what a ripoff.

01-27-2011, 01:45 AM	#125
Badcappy Banned Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 45	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame That's an odd one. The part number 250-60HNN I can see on the PCB means it was probably designed for 250W, but there's no FSP of that model; instead there's a 250-60HHN (http://www.fsp-group.com.tw/english/...=176&proid=658), which is supposed to have a bottom-mounted 12cm fan. Perhaps a special part# for OEM, or maybe even a clone of the FSP? The ratings are strange too since they match up with none of the FSP models and the 12V rails are far out of balance (one at 8A, one at 14?) A little surprising and disappointing to see a big manufacturer like Gigabyte overrating its PSUs.

01-27-2011, 01:56 AM	#126
Agent24 Fuhjyyu Killer Join Date: Oct 2007 City & State: Behind a soldering iron My Country: New Zealand Line Voltage: 230V AC 50Hz Posts: 1,615	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame I'm not surprised, Gigabyte are the masters of marketing hype (Or so someone told me once)

02-25-2011, 09:27 PM	#128
momaka Badcaps Veteran Join Date: May 2008 City & State: VA My Country: U.S.A. Line Voltage: 120 VAC, 60 Hz I'm a: Student Tech Posts: 3,202	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame Looks like one of the "safety" Y caps shorted. Proper Y caps are supposed to go open when they fail. Or perhaps the coil arced over. Yet another low end Solytech.

02-25-2011, 10:30 PM	#129
kaboom "What problem?" Join Date: Jan 2011 City & State: Reading, PA My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120/240V, 60Hz, 1ph I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 591	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame Thermistor blew out, and filter choke burned up, 'cause switchers and/or primary rectifiers shorted. If you could believe its rating, the fuse is probably 8A. Mmmm... chip of the year. Looks like that 'steel' was excess left over from the cheep 'n nasty scrapheaps disguised as cases. Gotta love the caps... Look! They used a TO-220 case rectifer for the 12v supply instead of two 3A FR diodes soldered to one of those stupid brackets... Hipot the bastard and make the world a better place -Paul __________________ Schools should teach how to think, not what to think. There were four mass killing attempts that week. Only one made the news because it helped the agreed upon media narrative. Oregon. NOT a gun free zone. Shooter confronted by permit holder. Shooter commits suicide. Only a few casualties. Texas. NOT a gun free zone. Shooter killed immediately by off duty cop. Only a few casualties. Connecticut. GUN FREE ZONE. Shooters kills until the police arrive. Suicide. 26 dead. China. GUN FREE COUNTRY. A guy with a KNIFE stabs 22 children. So much for "Knives have legitimate purposes, guns do not."

03-01-2011, 07:53 PM	#131
Scenic o.O Join Date: Sep 2007 City & State: Duisburg My Country: Germany Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz Posts: 2,616	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame JDDA? wannabe ADDA? __________________ The USA have Barack Obama, Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. We have Angela Merkel, no hope, no wonder, no cash.

03-03-2011, 09:46 AM	#134
Scenic o.O Join Date: Sep 2007 City & State: Duisburg My Country: Germany Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz Posts: 2,616	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame L@hoo(.de) noname POS. came out of an Athlon64 3700+ (Socket 939) system.. i didn't even bother testing it.. opened it up and..well.. good thing i never tried to turn the system on with it lahoo.de actually redirects to some kinda unknown company/shop named ONE. the wiring on this is really pathetic.. 20AWG, with some 22AWG (!) thrown in the mix.. omg.. caps are all Canicon and SC/CS (the saturn logo) + 2 brown Su'scon on the secondary (which are actually the only non-bulging ones )

03-03-2011, 12:59 PM	#135
ratdude747 Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2008 City & State: New Albany, IN My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Student Tech Posts: 10,911	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame you mean YC for the saturn logo? thats them. __________________ (Insert signature here)

03-03-2011, 02:19 PM	#136
Agent24 Fuhjyyu Killer Join Date: Oct 2007 City & State: Behind a soldering iron My Country: New Zealand Line Voltage: 230V AC 50Hz Posts: 1,615	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame At least it has an input filter??? Why bother, with capacitors like that... Actually it looks like one of the less-crap Hyenas. The square grille gives it away.

03-03-2011, 03:41 PM	#137
b700029 Banned Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 641	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame LC-xxx model number, "2003" or "2002" PWM chip, phenolic board... it's another rebrand of the infamous L&C. Schematic ("200W" but they probably just reuse the same one for the "300" and "350"): http://www.apaczai.elte.hu/~04ahgy/P...0_atx_2003.gif (I'd trust this schematic the same as I'd trust that PSU, since they seem to have drawn it with the 5 and 3.3v connected together ) Last edited by b700029; 03-03-2011 at 03:50 PM..

03-03-2011, 03:57 PM	#138
Agent24 Fuhjyyu Killer Join Date: Oct 2007 City & State: Behind a soldering iron My Country: New Zealand Line Voltage: 230V AC 50Hz Posts: 1,615	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame That makes sense, L&C, Hyena, Deer, Allied, Apex and Solytech (and others, including this one I guess) are all the same thing. Thanks for the schematic!

04-22-2011, 06:40 AM	#140
Agent24 Fuhjyyu Killer Join Date: Oct 2007 City & State: Behind a soldering iron My Country: New Zealand Line Voltage: 230V AC 50Hz Posts: 1,615	Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame Was that with dead capacitors or brand new?

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