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    AcBel 1000uF 10V Cap broke off. Newbie Needs some advice.

    Hi guys, I am somewhat tech savvy but not the kind of electronics guy with very little knowledge on the subject. Anyhow I recently opened up my PSU which is a ACbel 450W. Its a good PSU and gave me good service throughout the last two years. I opened it up since I wanted to give it a clean and maybe add some hot glue on to the caps and stuff so it takes down the low level noise.

    I accidentally broke off a Ltac 1000uF 10V cap(8mm), I know not very good caps but it was my fault I broke it off. But since I have some spare PSU's I took one old PSU and found some similar TEAPO 1000uF 10V caps on it what looked to be in good shape. So I salvaged a TEAPO cap (10mm but I managed to pull the legs a little wider with my fingernails and made it fit) and replaced it using it. I made sure the Negative was the golden marked line and I'm pretty sure I got the polarity's right.


    Now My question is I know TEAPO isn't the most reliable ones but Will it be okay? what are the 1000uF 10V caps used for? is it only for the 5V lines or do they effect the 12V lines? I strictly plan on using only the 12V rails on the PSU(only Yellow and Black).Will I have any problems or if the cap blows up will it kill my hardware or something bad?

    Please help
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    Re: AcBel 1000uF 10V Cap broke off. Newbie Needs some advice.

    That should work. A 10V cap would never be found on the 12V output unless someone at the factory screwed up.

    Why would you use only the 12V output on a computer power supply?

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      Re: AcBel 1000uF 10V Cap broke off. Newbie Needs some advice.

      Its for another project that only requires the 12V lines and will draw about 300W - 350W's at peak, (Yellow and Black Only). The PSU wont be powering the motherboard or anything, i will jump start it using the green and black wire.

      So just wanting confirmation from you guys if I am safe to go or if that cap will interfere with the 12V and -12 lines or my hardware in anyway

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        Re: AcBel 1000uF 10V Cap broke off. Newbie Needs some advice.

        It should work, but you might have to connect resistors to the rest of the outputs to provide the minimum load the outputs require.

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