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250W max if you are lucky!
250W max if you are lucky!
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Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage
That isn't even that bad of a PSU. It's just really old and uses junk caps.Comment
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Hahahahahahahaha
. Capacitor low Qulity, Canicrap High ESR, GLtrash, CScrap 
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this Airis is very poor quality. A few years ago (2005) I had an equal to this, and the psu is garbage, because one day explode and shutdown the computer (2006).
The KME, I do not know his quality, but the Airis the quality is horrible.
Bye, sorry my bad english
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Your English is fine.
I know it's overrated and not the best. But with new caps and maybe a rectifier upgrade, I bet you it could easily do 250W in spec. And the SG6105 chip is better than the standard single TL494 half bridge unit. But I know that most people don't want to invest the time or parts to help such a PSU, which I understand.Comment
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I will, I have several quality capacitors, by get her back not i lose anything.
If it works, I will publish some photo the recapping.
did not know that was able to deliver 250w. i thought the PSU generic did not expect too much of it, but I was wrong.
Thank You
Bye
sorry, I was wrong, for I have been lucky if delivery 250w therefore worth repairing.
I thought you said in sarcasm mode.
Bye, thank You.Last edited by kevin!; 08-05-2015, 05:24 PM.Gaming pc:
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Oh, very cool! I really like the size of the PI coil on the 12V rail. Have you checked to see what the specifications are on the silicon on the primary and secondary heatsinks? With good enough secondary silicon, you can even get 300W continuous out of a 33 transformer, as long as the fan moves good air. You're on 230V, which helps.Comment
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The main transistors on the primary heatsink, and the rectifiers on the second heatsinkComment
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2x 408 FR10036
Are you sure? Googling it returns nothing.Comment
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Last edited by kevin!; 08-06-2015, 03:44 PM.Gaming pc:
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Primary side sounds good. I'm guessing the two 10A are on 12V, and the 5V + 3.3V both get a 15A rectifier. Sounds pretty weak, it'd definitely need some better rectifiers on the secondary to do 250W continuous, safely. It could probably do 250W as is but would run really hot.Comment
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Last edited by kevin!; 08-08-2015, 05:51 PM.Gaming pc:
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How does the solder side look? What kind of fan does it use? Do you have a cpacitance/ESR meter?Comment
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No, I have no ESR/capacitance meter
The welds appear well, but I leave photo:
And fan:
The fan is normally one of 8cm. Not if it's good.
(8 cm fan is too small to remove the large amount of heat the PSU will generate.Something larger or at least a better brand will last more)
Bye
La soldadura parece bien, no de la calidad de marcas Delta o Seasonic pero esta decente.
(The soldering looks good, not likes the quality of delta or seasonic ,but still decent)
Un ventilador de 8cm me parece un poco chiquito para remover el calor que va a generar el PSU. Si fuera algo mas grande o por lo menos otra marca que esa duraria mas.
Pero yo lo repararia por lo menos para 200-250 vatios
(Still i would fix it for at least 200-250 watts)
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My LG XC12 micro-hifi system was acting weird lately (sound from only one speaker) so I opened it to check. Found these little two Honsing gems inside its psu.
One is obvious, the other is bulging also badly on top and on the circumference. Weird thing is I haven't found anywhere the missing cap body, and the unit didn't seem to be opened before, still had paint on some of the screws
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I know I've been a little scarce lately (like the last 2-3 years), but I'm still here and still doing my thing with fixing PSUs.
For today's considerations, I have a Seasonic B12 BC-550 [A551bcafh] 550 Watt ATX power supply for you (click on links for full size images).
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=3591771
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=3591772
It's a modern ATX unit with fixed (non-modular) cables and an 80-plus bronze certificate. Here's the label:
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Introducing... the POS-124Z which really is a POS:
Yep it's a POS allright.
I tried powering it up. It's a KILLER - not fried, but sure will fry things! I got 21V out of it unloaded according to my DMM!
I tried 21W load (car lamp) - got 16V, which is really pushing that lamp.
Then I tried a 50W load (car headlight) - got 13.2V. Not too bad but this is with the heavy load...except the circuit breaker kept tripping.
So I had to take a peek:
EIEW. Looks like a Darlington emitter follower + Zener device. Heatsinking?... -
While our PSU hall of shame thread is fun I thought It'd be fun to have a ripple hall of shame thread too
I'll go first out, it's an industrial PSU that offers +15v -15v -5v +5v rails.
However it has been mounted on a frame with DC/DC converters for producing +12v and -12v as well.
The caps for this have gone a bit high ESR
The measured ripple is around 1700mV, or 1.7v!
After recapping the ripple is gone, also note that the scale on the scope is 50mV/div instead of 500mV per div in this shot
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Hi any suggestion would really help.
I have Hp Envy X360 13 which is AMD.
Model : 13-ar0005AU
motherboard No : 18740-1.
Problem : can't turn on.
After inspecting the motherboard, I discovered that one of the hall sensors was broken. Can't find the schematic for this board, so not sure about this SMD device number.
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Back in 2020 i bought a (2nd hand) compact ATX psu to replace my current one. My PC case only fits very short ATX power supplies so i didn't really have the choice of buying a decent 80Plus unit. The current unit is a modded YoungYear unit that i made a thread about a while ago:
A "nice" YoungYear unit? - Badcaps
The "new" unit is a KDM-M6480 480W psu, the 480W number is a typical KDM bullshit claim of course, but the 24A rating on the 12V rail seemed reasonable and the "Active PFC" claim gave me a bit of hope that this was going to be decent-ish....
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