I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

[momaka]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

dont panic, the heatsink is sometimes live - you will have blown a fuse and *maybe* damaged the main rectifier.
nothing expensive or serious.

+1

I have fixed this exact same problem for a classmate's PSU. In his case, he dropped the PSU without its top cover while it was connected to the wall. The metal case (which is grounded) touched the heatsink (which is live at -170V). Result: blown fuse. EASY FIX!

more importantly, about those caps.
...
there is no such thing as "just a bit", it's not like cutting yourself!
both those caps are done - and could blow something.

+1 again.
This is Why You NEVER Ignore Bad Capacitors!

[stj]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

well you need to check the fuse on the psu, and meter the pins on the rectifier to make sure it isnt shorted.

[isabis]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

ok, if it helps in any way, the fuse in my house burned when this happened as well, it was 500V 16A fuse, I had to replace it

[CapLeaker]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

I double up stj's comment above. It's a bummer, but fairly inexpensive and easily repairable.

[stj]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

dont panic, the heatsink is sometimes live - you will have blown a fuse and *maybe* damaged the main rectifier.
nothing expensive or serious.

more importantly, about those caps.

There was one capacitor that was a bit inflated and another one that seemed to release the chemical, but just a bit

there is no such thing as "just a bit", it's not like cutting yourself!
both those caps are done - and could blow something.

[isabis]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

Those caps are indeed bad. You probably killed whatever semiconductors are mounted on that heatsink that was shorted to gnd through the case cover, and possibly other components in that part of the circuit.

You gave me some hope in repairing the PSU when you said that I probably killed the semiconductors and then you immediately crushed all the hope I had by saying "and possibly other components in that part of the circuit".

So, I should just buy a new one I guess.

With my limited knowledge, I would barely replace the semiconductors, but there is no way I could find and replace those other components that I probably destroyed.

[SteveNielsen]

Re: I just accidentaly destroyed my Fortron Blue Storm II

Those caps are indeed bad. You probably killed whatever semiconductors are mounted on that heatsink that was shorted to gnd through the case cover, and possibly other components in that part of the circuit.

[isabis]

Hello everyone!
So I recently had problems with my Fortron Blue Storm II (JonnyGuru review: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php...=Story&reid=84).

The problem was that when I would turn on my PC, my fans would start spinning and then stop after 1 second, PC wouldn't boot up at all. Classic PSU problem I thought, and went ahead to replace my Fortron with a PSU from my brothers PC and voila - my PC works!

So I went ahead and opened my Fortron to see if I can find out what's wrong with it. What I saw were multiple very dense clusters of dust on few capacitors and transistors. Components looked good, nothing seemed burned up. There was one capacitor that was a bit inflated and another one that seemed to release the chemical, but just a bit. I thought it's not such a big deal and went ahead and cleaned that dust clusters all up, plugged my PSU back and voila – it works!

Now this is the part where idiot me destroyed the PSU, thank God I didn't get electrocuted in the process:

PSU fan sounded weird (probably because the PSU was standing upside down and fan was facing down, not the position it was designed to stand in, but idiot me didn't realize it right away) so I went ahead and took the metal case cap of the PSU with the fan attached to it WHILE PSU WAS WORKING to do something with it. Thinking about it now, idk what would I do with a spinning fan, but yeah, idiot me went ahead and did it anyway.

While I was removing the metal case cap, I accidently touched PSU heatsink with one end of the metal case cap and the rest of the big metal case with the other part of the metal case cap.

When that happened, I saw and heard a spark, after that my PSU wasn't working anymore.
Here is a picture to help you understand what happened.

So basically, I "repaired" the PSU by cleaning it from dust and then I destroyed it right away.

Here are the pictures of the capacitor that seemed a bit inflated and the one that seemed to release the chemical a bit. Important: my PSU was still working with these two in this condition before I destroyed the PSU.

More pictures of the PSU here.

Any ideas on what could have happened here and what needs replacing?

Thank you in advance!

p.s. I know, I am an idiot