Re: Unknown cheap PSU with blown caps

thanks for the help guys!

I have a dead lite on PSU from an HP that I'll take caps from. it just died with no bad caps, and no physical damage, so the caps should be fine. they are rubycon caps. I dont understand why the hp psu died with no failures, maybe a bad VRM...

but even though the rubycon filter caps are 3 years older than this PSU, it should be fine. the PSU is going into a Athlon 1GHz HP that the liteon died in, it has 1 HDD, 1 floppy, 2 CDROM drives, and a motherboard with an Nvidia TNT2 AGP GPU and a...

Re: Unknown cheap PSU with blown caps

mine weighs just as much as a good quality one, and it never smells bad at all. I've been using it in a custom workstation for 9 years and it still works 100% fine, but I dont want to risk them blowing and messing up somthing else. its fan is actually quiet and very good quality, the heatsinks aren't too small either. mine was made in 2003.

Re: Unknown cheap PSU with blown caps

pictures worked this time, check the post!

so I have this cheap PSU with blown caps (huge surprise there), but it actually looks worth saving.
its an Excellent XPower 300, and 2 of the caps are 2200uf and I cant see the other 2 or 3 blown caps.

So is it worth replacing the caps, or will it just blow them again?
thanks for any help!...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello all!
I came across this forum multiple times when looking up info on replacing capacitors over the years, and I decided to join because I have some blown caps in odd stuff not yet on the forum, so maybe if I share it I'll get better help fixing it.

I work on computers, so I come across my share of bad caps on mobos, PSUs, LCD monitors, you name it.

I live in canada, so I have limited resources, lol.