Hi, first post here so I'm sorry if I got it all wrong!
I know trodas already from the OCW Forums, where I'm known as RayvenX
Anyhow, the subject of my post is a somewhat unfortunate PSU, a GTR 450W-Li. I've not heard of the brand before, my friend from Hong Kong brought it back to the UK for me, but it has 30A on a single 12v rail and is very stable, even under high loads so I don't want to throw it away (although the bright colour scheme and half-transparent housing is a bit 'bling' for my liking)...
I looked in the top of it, having become somewhat more aware of the issues with caps in computer components and noticed it's full of bright yellow Fuhjyyus
I'll be contacting Big Pope with regard to getting some replacement Samxons, but it's a bit hard to work out all of all the caps, so some advance de-soldering will probably be required.
I've got some pics of the PSU in question (with bright yellow caps, no idea what the big ones are?) on my Picasa album here:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lainazurael/GTR450WLiPSU
This one concerns me a little because while none of the caps have bulged, the crusty substance on the top of the cap in focus here and the one in font definitely doesn't match the glue used elsewhere in the PSU:
Anyway, enough of this rant
Suffices to say I've stopped using the PSU in question until I've got replacements in there!
I know trodas already from the OCW Forums, where I'm known as RayvenX
Anyhow, the subject of my post is a somewhat unfortunate PSU, a GTR 450W-Li. I've not heard of the brand before, my friend from Hong Kong brought it back to the UK for me, but it has 30A on a single 12v rail and is very stable, even under high loads so I don't want to throw it away (although the bright colour scheme and half-transparent housing is a bit 'bling' for my liking)...
I looked in the top of it, having become somewhat more aware of the issues with caps in computer components and noticed it's full of bright yellow Fuhjyyus
I'll be contacting Big Pope with regard to getting some replacement Samxons, but it's a bit hard to work out all of all the caps, so some advance de-soldering will probably be required.I've got some pics of the PSU in question (with bright yellow caps, no idea what the big ones are?) on my Picasa album here:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lainazurael/GTR450WLiPSU
This one concerns me a little because while none of the caps have bulged, the crusty substance on the top of the cap in focus here and the one in font definitely doesn't match the glue used elsewhere in the PSU:
Anyway, enough of this rant
Suffices to say I've stopped using the PSU in question until I've got replacements in there!
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