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How to recap antec psus???

10-17-2010, 03:36 AM

i just recieved (free) about 10 antec smart/true power power supplies. all withbloated fuhjyyus. how the hell am i supposed to get under that heatsink???
some onclude:

-antec true 550w
-antec true 480w
-2x antec true 380w
-antec smartpower 450w
-antec smartpower 350w

and more, but these i could list off the top of my head. they are heavy, high-qulity power supplies. except for the fuhjyyu caps.

why does one have 2 panasonic [m] caps and one is BLOATED???
does it need to be replaced?
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10-17-2010, 04:00 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

I'm jealous.

These are great psus if they get fully recapped and fan modded.

Please post some photos.
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10-17-2010, 04:19 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

what fan mod?
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10-17-2010, 04:44 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

Originally posted by shovenose

how the hell am i supposed to get under that heatsink???

With a big soldering iron and a desolder pump aka solder sucker. Remove heatsink along with attached parts (do it all at once, don't bother removing the semiconductors off it), do your job, put heatsink back.

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10-17-2010, 04:46 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

i havent got the hakko 936 yet-for now im stuk with my 25w iron, so thats the thing
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10-17-2010, 05:15 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

25w should be enough to do that.

the truepower are the best ones btw.
and you will probably feel the temptation to resolder every damned joint and trim all the leads on the smartpower!
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10-17-2010, 06:53 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

I always manage to get at the caps with the heatsink still in place (well, I do on the smartpowers. I've never even seen a truepower before, let alone opened and re-capped one).

I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

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10-17-2010, 07:44 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

Originally posted by shovenose

what fan mod?

I fanmod the true power and the smart power psus because they get REALLY HOT and that can cause problems such as this and this let alone the bulging caps.

Originally posted by c_hegge

I always manage to get at the caps with the heatsink still in place (well, I do on the smartpowers. I've never even seen a truepower before, let alone opened and re-capped one).

Yeap, it's not so difficult.

I have recapped my antec truepower 2.0 380w without removing anything but the caps.
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10-17-2010, 09:44 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

ok. so how does one do this fanmod?
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10-17-2010, 09:57 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

Originally posted by shovenose

ok. so how does one do this fanmod?

It depends on the model.

You have to find the thermal sensor, that is usually touching the secondary heatsink.

The thermal sensor is a variable resistor that changes with the temperature. If the sensor is an NTC then you can mod it by putting a resistor in paraller with it.
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10-17-2010, 11:20 AM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

can i just bypass the thermal sensor? like just solder the fan wires onto one of the 12v wires?
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10-17-2010, 12:37 PM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

Yeap
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10-17-2010, 03:03 PM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

follow the fan wires back to the board,
one wire will pass through a transistor.
remove that transistor and put a link between the emitter and collector holes.
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10-17-2010, 03:46 PM

Re: How to recap antec psus???

Or, just conect the fan directly to the 12V rail.

I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

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