The good (naaah ) old (definately) CG 200X. After seeing c_hegge's rebuild I decided to try myself at modding a Codegen too. So here it goes. I'm not going to change the big transformer and inductors but all caps will go despite whatever condition they are. The supply worked so far and I hope it will too after I'm done with it. Also I'm putting the whole thing into a different psu case with a 12cm fan, so the heatsinks will be changed as well.
Let's see what we are dealing with.
Decent transient filtering, 4 amp bridge rectifier. Hec caps everywhere. The primaries have dropped a lot from their capacitance. When the LX series is "new" it actualy lives up to the specs... for a year at most. Primary switchers are E13009L and their aren't fake I guess. Good. I never had the luck to find much info about the S0165r IC...
Secondary has HEC ZT 1000uf and 470uf. They measure good and none of them bulges. They usually don't. I can't measure esr now but as far as I've seen their esr stays in spec.
Transformer is an ER-35, funny thing is the orange labeled 300w model has ei-33 in it usually. 30 amp schottkys for 5 and 3.3 volts and a fast 16A for the 12 volt. Not bad I say compared what you find it the orange box
I've heared that Codegen is going through some changes and they may impove their quality. That would be great as far as they won't overprice their products.
That's all for today.
Let's see what we are dealing with.
Decent transient filtering, 4 amp bridge rectifier. Hec caps everywhere. The primaries have dropped a lot from their capacitance. When the LX series is "new" it actualy lives up to the specs... for a year at most. Primary switchers are E13009L and their aren't fake I guess. Good. I never had the luck to find much info about the S0165r IC...
Secondary has HEC ZT 1000uf and 470uf. They measure good and none of them bulges. They usually don't. I can't measure esr now but as far as I've seen their esr stays in spec.
Transformer is an ER-35, funny thing is the orange labeled 300w model has ei-33 in it usually. 30 amp schottkys for 5 and 3.3 volts and a fast 16A for the 12 volt. Not bad I say compared what you find it the orange box
I've heared that Codegen is going through some changes and they may impove their quality. That would be great as far as they won't overprice their products.
That's all for today.
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I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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