Well it looks like yet anther Enermax Liberty 500w recap job.
I removed all of cTc caps and one JP ce-tur 470uF 25v cap.
4 ctc 3300uF 10v two of them are KM Series10x30 and other two are FM Series 10x35. sort of like phony panny caps I guess. lol
2 ctc 3300uF 16v 10x35
1 ctc 1500uF 10v 10 x 25
1 ctc 1000uF 10v 8 x 20
1 JP CE-TUR 470uF 25v 8 x20
Replacements caps are:
2 SAMXON RS 3300uF 16v
4 SAMXON RS 3300uF 10v shame on Enermax for not giving more space.
I would love to use my fat 12.5mm Ruby cap, but thank goodness we have RS to do the job. At least OCZ was much more flexible in that regard. You can use 10mm or 12.5mm just fine.
1 Ruby MBZ 1500uF 16v
1 Ruby MCZ 1000uF 16v
1 Ruby MBZ 470uF 16v it should be fine since according to TRODAS the max spike only gets to around 14.4v.
None of the caps were swollen yet. While the unit is open I cleaned all of that nasty glue off the mosfets to prevent it from exploding on me. Thank you all who diagnosed this. Well the problem now is that that glue is completely dried up and ferrite beads are loose in there, also the white glue that was preventing the coil from rattling has become dry and cracked. I understand that RTV works quiet good for this sort of job.
But serially, what is proper computer grade electronic adhesive that should be used to secure coils and beads? Or should I just shut up and get blue RTV and be done with it.
Also while I was removing old caps I noticed that this PSU has all of the caps bridged with surface mount resistors. Can some one shine light on this? What is the purpose of having resistors bridging cap like that?
Thank you.
I removed all of cTc caps and one JP ce-tur 470uF 25v cap.
4 ctc 3300uF 10v two of them are KM Series10x30 and other two are FM Series 10x35. sort of like phony panny caps I guess. lol
2 ctc 3300uF 16v 10x35
1 ctc 1500uF 10v 10 x 25
1 ctc 1000uF 10v 8 x 20
1 JP CE-TUR 470uF 25v 8 x20
Replacements caps are:
2 SAMXON RS 3300uF 16v
4 SAMXON RS 3300uF 10v shame on Enermax for not giving more space.
I would love to use my fat 12.5mm Ruby cap, but thank goodness we have RS to do the job. At least OCZ was much more flexible in that regard. You can use 10mm or 12.5mm just fine.
1 Ruby MBZ 1500uF 16v
1 Ruby MCZ 1000uF 16v
1 Ruby MBZ 470uF 16v it should be fine since according to TRODAS the max spike only gets to around 14.4v.
None of the caps were swollen yet. While the unit is open I cleaned all of that nasty glue off the mosfets to prevent it from exploding on me. Thank you all who diagnosed this. Well the problem now is that that glue is completely dried up and ferrite beads are loose in there, also the white glue that was preventing the coil from rattling has become dry and cracked. I understand that RTV works quiet good for this sort of job.
But serially, what is proper computer grade electronic adhesive that should be used to secure coils and beads? Or should I just shut up and get blue RTV and be done with it.
Also while I was removing old caps I noticed that this PSU has all of the caps bridged with surface mount resistors. Can some one shine light on this? What is the purpose of having resistors bridging cap like that?
Thank you.
Thus, I knew I'd eventually go around to repairing it. One year later and we're here. 
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