Fortron ATX-350PNF

[i4004]

here's what i decided to use.
fair enough, i would say.

higher class starts at wattage and prices i percept as overkill. i'll rather pick few fortrons and keep an eye on them.

ost/teapo all the way, so wish me luck!

[inhiber]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Does it have a Pcie connector?

[acstech]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Preventative recap on the output might be a good idea, otherwise looks alright!

It is an FSP, so I don't think you'll have issues with it for quite a while, even considering the caps. Provided that you don't overload it of course.

What's it going in?

[i4004]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

inhiber, no it doesn't have it.
but it seems there are adapters
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t37620.html

astech, it's powering mobo with g33 chipset and c2d at 2.2ghz. everything in the box added it should be well under 300w...or even under 250w...using onboard video.

i won't be touching output caps, i think i'll just monitor esr of caps on the pwm-ic daughter-board (https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...achmentid=7340) and the board for fan regulation (https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...chmentid=7344), also 5vstb circuit, offcourse.
check it once a year, or even less.

[willawake]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

i checked the 400 https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3167
doesnt have pci-e either

[inhiber]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Yeah, that was sad. It's so cheap and when I looked at this scheme I saw a connector that looked like a PciE connector. Between the connector it stands PD. But obviously it's something else.

[willawake]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

PD is the 12v 4pin connector for the motherboard

on the 400 it has 20+4, 12v 4pin, 6 molex, 1 floppy, 2 sata. so thats a bit different to the diagram

[starfury1]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Is that using passive PFC? looks like it

cheers

[willawake]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

uhuh everything is passive or active in euroland

[inhiber]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

thx willawake! Now I think about to buy an adaptor, an 2 molex to 6 pin adaptor. But I'm not sure if it will be the same stability as an origin 6 pin.

[starfury1]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

thanks willawake I thought it would be with that big inductor hanging off the side
just wasn't sure of the vintage, seems a lot now use Active power factor correction.
just really asking to be sure.

Cheers

[ddscentral]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

hello there, my first post in this forum.
I've got a Fortron ATX-350PNF in one of my computers and it's been working correctly for about 10 months.
How long do these psus last without a recap ?
The system is: Athlon XP 2600+, 1gb ram, Radeon9550, 2 dvd drives.

[i4004]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

my guess is they can do many years, but i'll still inspect them every year or so, just to be safe.
i don't expect to see any deterioration first or 2nd time i do it.
don't realyl expect it on further examinations too, as after all these types of caps are not fuhyyu type of rubbish.

such reports
"FSP350-60PN (PF):
unit is about 3 yuears old, powering a demanding amd Athlon xp 1700+@200mhz rig. All caps are loking fine, only Jamicon and one teapo there. As long as i dont own an esr meter, i àssume they are fine. This unit was bought retail."
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1527
should be standard for fortron, as long as they don't put Fuhyyu.

i have 2, so upon inspection i'll just put the other one in and then take my time with the one i'm inspecting. during few days i'll inspect all lytic caps, most within the circit(without any soldering), with esr meter, and some will probably need to be taken out, if they're in circuit with transformer, so readout is not reliable.

[bluebear]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Hi!

My FSP started to automatically turn off my computer. After the third time in
a short time I ripped the PSU out. I have oppened it up and measured all output capacitors and ESR seems all good and dandy, 0.01 - 0.03. Although they are teapo caps.
I´m a little stumped, since I was certain too find atleast one bad cap.

I´m now turning my eyes on the input side and the large 200v teapo.

It has worked quietly and without fuzz for more than 2 years, so probably bound to happen I guess.

[bluebear]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Ok, hehe.

A bit embarrassed, I have to admit that my FSP is working as it should.
My sudden shut downs was due to the plastic attachment to my heatsink had
buckled and a piece that the heatsink is attached to had broken off.

Hence, the heatsink more or less just hanged down over the cpu. I´m lucky that it didn´t burn out. So thats why my CAPS looked good, like they should.

[Rulycat]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

uhuh everything is passive or active in euroland

All new stuff is, it seems. I've come across older computers without PFC in the PSU. (usually horrible cheap ass PSUs)

[Behemot]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

All new stuff is, it seems. I've come across older computers without PFC in the PSU. (usually horrible cheap ass PSUs)

Due to new laws everything new must have active PFC since 2008 or something liek that. Passive PFC had to be for some time before, but now everything only active. It's good since it does not put so high load on electric grid...

[370forlife]

Re: Fortron ATX-350PNF

Yes, Active or passive is required in Europe. It only really benefits the electric companies as you pay for the actual power, they pay for the apparent power.

It helps weed out some of the terrible manufacturers, but even leadman offers PPFC and APFC on their units.