Re: A-Power 500 Watt PSU - Record fast dead caps

I've got a couple Codegen PSU's that came with cases on my bench with hacksawed heat sinks exactly like those, I kept the units just to laugh at. Removing those heaps of trash was my first process upon unboxing those cases (ARK). I swear those shoddily-sawn heatsinks are some Chinese high-school's shop-class project.

Gotta love that race to the bottom...what a joke.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

Re: Dead PSU - Help a beginner, please

Another vote for trashing the Codegen. I have a couple new ones here, never used, they came with a couple cases we got. I wasn't about to try and use them, they're horrid! The Apevia/Assfire POS looks like a Seasonic by comparison, they're so cheesy inside. Mine are missing all input filtration components, just like a Deer/L&C POS. How it's even legal to import this garbage baffles me, frankly.

If you're pinched for cash, the FSP Blue Storm 400 would run your system nicely, and only costs $50 at the egg. I've been using them...

Re: Naked Zippy psl-6700p. You'll wanna see this. Efficiency numbers too.

Yup, I'm a B-3 player. I can see missing it...I could never part with mine. I'd be one sad puppy. I've got a beat-up old B-2 also, plus an L-100 a friend gave me and an M-102 I rescued from the curb, I couldn't see an old tone-wheel Hammond meet doom in the jaws of a garbage truck crusher...

TP

Re: Naked Zippy psl-6700p. You'll wanna see this. Efficiency numbers too.

Now THAT'S a power supply! The internals are just gorgeous...none of this flashy blingy glowy crap, just pure high-quality electronics. That's how a power supply should be built right there! Can we say "uptime" boys and girls?

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

Re: Aspire PSU with bad caps

Yup, that looks like an ATX-66B board, I found this interesting article:

[url]http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/413[/url]

The in-depth analysis starts off with "The design used on this power supply is simply ridiculous." After reading the text, I concur. The same NPN primary transistors and anemic primary rectifier bridge show up in the "430W" short-ATX wreck that comes in the Apevia cube cases. Young Year seems to turn corner-cutting into an art form...a rectifier on the 12V secondary that can only...

Re: Aspire PSU with bad caps

Yup, we have dozens of those Aspire/Apevia cube cases. It's indeed tight installing a standard ATX supply, but the stock short one is so bad it's worth the contortions to install a good one. I have good success with FSP Blue Storm 400's in these, the cables are not too difficult to get out of the way. I've shoved leftover PC Power&Cooling Silencer 410's we have in with good results as well, I have an Aspire cube with a Silencer 410 on my desk at home (it's my Windows Home Server Beta test box).

JonnyGURU tested the shorty that comes...

Re: Aspire PSU with bad caps

If you don't replace the other secondary caps now, you'll replace 'em later. Aspire/Apevia PSU's are loaded with Y.C. and/or Fuhjyyu caps, and they get quite hot and then vent. Young Year is the OEM for their supplies...they're not really known for longevity.

Personally I don't think they're worth the effort to repair, I just recycle-bin 'em when I run into them. But if you want to keep that one around, a recap will at least make it reasonably reliable.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan