Re: ASUSTech Terminator ATP-1655 PSU

yes, there's some more teapo caos in there, there's no visible issues, but based on some reading here since my first post, I am with you on getting them out of there.

The one advantage of having more than one to work with is that in the worst case scenario, I can at least get some comparative voltages between them.

The one that's not starting on the tester was working in the machine, so I'm reckoning that the only issue is that my tester is not loading the start line correctly, once that's happening, I suspect it will...

Re: ASUSTech Terminator ATP-1655 PSU

Rather than fill the server up with similar posts, there's pictures of the PSU on another thread here.

[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpost.php?p=159589&postcount=3[/url]

I won't do better than these without stripping the one here a lot further,

Picture 3, the 1500 uf caps on the bottom right corner are all blown on both PSU's, and looking at the serial numbers of the PSU's, they came from the same batch of production, so I'm not surprised that both are down. Not sure if I should change the other...

Hi Folks

Have to try and repair a couple of power supplies that are used on Acer Terminator machines, they are ATP-1655, and the same board is used in ATP-1505 as well

They are a small form factor Micro ATX PSU that pushes out 165W for the PC, and there's no easy alternative due to the form factor.

Both power supplies are suffering from bad TEAPO capacitors, one of them has lost the -5V supply, the other was sort of working, but doesn't even start when plugged into my tester box, and it won't power up the PC in less than about 10 attempts, so for now,...

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Long time lurker, with electronic service experience that goes back to the days when computers had a bank of 6 or 8 164,000 uf oil filled capacitors on the 5v rail that has a resistor across them to make sure they were discharged when not running, and even then, a quick screwdriver across the bus bars was advised before swapping one out to make sure it was discharged fully. Welded a driver to the bars one day when making sure, and discovered the resistor was open circuit.

Anyway, that was a long time ago in a different...