I bought three of these Sparkle Power FSP460-60GLC - Computer Power Supply 460Watts recap need

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I have bought computer switching power supplies from Electronic Goldmine before and every one of them the capacitors were bloated and or leaking out of the capacitors so I am sure that these are going to be the same way five or six years ago I had bought some 300 and 350 watt computer switching power supply from Electronic Goldmine these are all from FSP brand

Here is the listing for this switching power supply they only had three of them in stock and I bought all three of them

https://theelectronicgoldmine.com/products/g28149

I have one old computer that I plan on putting one of them in this computer and bring it back to life I just have to find a complete computer case with all of the covers but this is for another day

I have a new board that allows you to see the voltage on each rail that goes between each rail and reads it plus it has a adjustable 12 volts to 0 volts I going to set this up also

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Well the switching power supplies arrived a couple of days ago and what do you know it shows signs of capacitors leaking and bloating on the top of the capacitors The quality of these switching power supply are decent but they use the shit-est capacitors they could possibly find this company should be ashamed of themselves for this crap because if they had used better quality capacitors then they would have a much higher rating in terms of quality of there component performance than just overall performance quality than what have now for me personally

On a scale of 0 to 10 and ten being excellent and zero being just plain shit I would give them barely a 3 overall quality with the original capacitors after you replace all of the capacitors except for the main filtering capacitors then I would give them an eight in performance rating and you can rely on it performance and you are ready to go

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Well I had some time today to start recapping this switching power supply and of course there had to be an odd ball capacitor UF value 68 @ 35 volts but I going to use 50 volts ones instead of 35 volt ones I have not run into this value just like the 27uf @ 50 volts

This switching power supply has eight 1000uf @ 16 volts ones most of the time you might see 3 to 5 of them but not 8 of them
there are two 2200uf @ 16 volt ones as well

One nice thing about this switching power supply is that it has many different device type connectors which you do not find on most switching power supply you might have 3 different ones if you are lucky but it makes removing the power supply cables very difficult to remove the hole for the cables and to remove some of the capacitors where the wires are was some what difficult to do but it can be done with a little bit of patience

100 of each one
I have to order some 68uf @ 50 volt ones
I have to order some 27uf @ 50 volt ones

20 of this one
I have to order some 1000uf @ 16 volt ones
10 of this one
I have to order some 2200uf @ 16 volt ones

I probably need to order some other value than this but I have to see what I have to recap so I have them when I get ready to do them

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Well I recapped the switching power supply and used some very old “FC” 1000uf @ 16 volts and one blew its top with in a couple of minutes of use ( unfortunately these capacitors are at least 10 years old or older than that )

The issue is that it has to be 8mm in diameter because there two of next to each other there is also a diode next the heat sink one end and on the other end there is a coil so I to find something that will fit )

When I find something that will work for this switching power supply series wise and diameter wise I will replace all of 1000uf @16 volts “FC” series