Did my first PSU recaps

[dood]

Finally got around to doing the two Startech PSUs that I have here that had bad caps. The ATXPOWER300 had 4 dead Fulltec 2200uf 10v caps, and the ATXPOWER250 had 1 dead SC (or CS?) 2200uf 10v cap. Both recaps went fine and everything works great. Here's the pics of the dead caps:

[Newbie2]

Re: Did my first PSU recaps

Will you post the pictures of the internals of your two StarTech power supplies with the new caps?

What brand of cap did you use for the recapping?

[dood]

Re: Did my first PSU recaps

I used Rubycons for the recap. The internals look the same as what's in the Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial thread, except now they have rubycons, so purple.

[yanz]

Re: Did my first PSU recaps

so you use rubycon mbz?
do you just recap it or desoldered the wire first?

[dood]

Re: Did my first PSU recaps

For those PSUs I used the Rubycon MBZ series that I purchased from Topcat. I think for my next one I'm going to be trying some Samxon caps for a change. The Ruby's are nice, but pretty expensive.

I just recapped it like I would a motherboard. There was enough room around everything to get the caps out without having to remove anything else. I just unscrewed the board from the chassis, and there was enough slack on the incoming wires to twist the board out of the chassis and do the work. I can see where some PSUs would be damn near impossible, with as tightly packed as they are, but these were relatively easy...

My next recap is going to be a Topower server supply with 3 dead caps. I just need to get the values of the current caps and decide what I want to use in it's place. It's a beast... the pics of it will be up tomorrow sometime.