Has anyone seen affodable and small multi channel temperature
meter suitable for capacitor temperature monitoring?
My 3 years old Seasonic S12-430 PSU has OST caps on the
secondary. The PSU has been used for 24 000 hours. I checked the
caps with an ESR meter and they are still fine, all the big ones
are less or equal to 0.04 ohms.
I would like to monitor the PSU cap health in an easier way than
disassembling it half way every time. One way would be to
monitor the capacitor temperature with sensors attached to
biggest caps on the secondary.
meter suitable for capacitor temperature monitoring?
My 3 years old Seasonic S12-430 PSU has OST caps on the
secondary. The PSU has been used for 24 000 hours. I checked the
caps with an ESR meter and they are still fine, all the big ones
are less or equal to 0.04 ohms.
I would like to monitor the PSU cap health in an easier way than
disassembling it half way every time. One way would be to
monitor the capacitor temperature with sensors attached to
biggest caps on the secondary.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
