power supply hall of shame entry 1

[kc8adu]

a real loser.
name withheld by mfr to protect them from the wrath of the fcc ,ul,csa,ect for forged certification marks.

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

Craptastic. I especially like the missing protection chip and circuitry, and the complete lack of transient filtering on the primary.

Always get a chuckle out of those Canicon caps... somebody sure got conned

[kc8adu]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

i am going to load it to spec and see if it does a grand flameout like the one on toms hardware.
i will shoot video.

[acstech]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

Lots of empty holes on that PCB. Look forward to the video!

[japlytic]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

Some serious corners have been cut in this power supply!
Bet it won't last under full load...

[i4004]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...achmentid=8038
interesting meter(s)
http://www.eds-inc.com/products.html

>grand flameout like the one on toms hardware

link?

[linuxguru]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

Notwithstanding the crap L&C innards, this one is actually better than some of the fake 450W ones I've seen. At least, it seems to have MOSPEC 12A rectifiers on +12 and +3.3v, and what appears to be a TO-3P 30A rectifier on +5v. Most of the secondary capacitor locations seem to be populated. I would not be too surprised if it worked reliably at a 300W load, and a simple recap with good caps should be sufficient to keep it going for PII/PIII class machines which typically consume less than 100W.

[Newbie2]

Re: power supply hall of shame entry 1

Actually that's not so bad for a generic 450W power supply.

It would be fine for an older computer up to the Athlon XP/early P4 class computers.