Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
06-09-2022, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 1,725
Views: 469,042
Moretek MPS-200/150 Power Supply
So here is a power supply that i found in the trash, the PSU appears to be rather old judging by the external switch and minimal output leads.
Label:
265881
Looking at the label, we don't really...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
06-05-2022, 05:02 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 227
Re: Can Ammeter damage Power Supply?
I've used those displays before, and they do not have to run on a isolated supply, in fact, the ground wire for the display power is commoned to the current shunt ground, so if you do try to use an...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
04-20-2022, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Ultra ULT-500P
Well, since my last project isn't working out how i hoped it would, I thought i would take a look at another of my PSUs that needs some repairs. In this case, an Ultra V-Series 500w PSU i found for...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
04-16-2022, 03:11 AM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Re: Power supply build quality pictorial. part 2
Forgot to add one last thing, I forgot where i had put one of the two fans that were in this PSU, so i substituted it with one of these Sanyo Denki fans i had gotten from a surplus store a long time...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
04-16-2022, 12:18 AM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-15-2022, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 1,725
Views: 469,042
Re: ZUMAX Technology ZU400W (X1)
I may actually try putting slightly beefier parts on the secondary and put this PSU into some junker PC that I plan on throwing together out of spare parts (just so I have something at my workbench...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-13-2022, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 1,725
Views: 469,042
ZUMAX Technology ZU4000W (X1)
So here is a PSU i just found at Goodwill today, A few things about it caught my attention, which is why i'm posting it so soon after getting it (and why i may have picked it up in the first place)....
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
03-12-2022, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 603
Views: 284,810
Re: The ghetto mod thread
This is more of a repair than a mod, but i assume it can still go here.
Story: So a few years ago, I got a 150w/10A electronic load off eBay, and when it arrived, it turned out the LCD was damaged...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-12-2022, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Re: Thermaltake Purepower HPC-420-102 DF
Yeah, i guess thats what i get for saying 'i'll probably be told if it does have any meaning'. Though i find it a bit funny to have that one question answered 4 times by 4 people.
I was...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-11-2022, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Re: Thermaltake Purepower HPC-420-102 DF
I did think it had something to do with being a more modern PSU, but when i saw the 5v rail was more powerful than the 12v rail, i started to think it meant something else, but i guess my initial...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-11-2022, 12:00 AM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Thermaltake Purepower HPC-420-102 DF
Nope, it's only one IRFBC20, the other one is a P6NB80.
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Anyway, here is another PSU that i have, this one (unlike the last...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-01-2022, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Re: Power supply build quality pictorial. part 2
Yeah, that was a typo i failed to noticed before posting (meant to put in ERL28), either that, or my brain was running close to empty, which given the fact i posted that post at around 3AM, might...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-01-2022, 09:59 PM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Re: Power supply build quality pictorial. part 2
Okay, thanks for letting me know, because I didn't have a case or model number for this PSU, i could only guess what its power rating was (and i do think i was in the ballpark when it came to the...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
03-01-2022, 04:23 AM
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Replies: 3,195
Views: 1,059,542
Re: Power supply build quality pictorial. part 2
So i was cleaning some stuff up, and dug up this busted PC power supply i found in the trash some years ago, and thought i would get some photos of it before i part it out, so here it is, i don't...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Power Supplies and Power Supply Design
02-24-2022, 10:33 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 3,508
Re: Trying to repair a cheap 12v power supply
I know it's been nearly 4 years since I asked this question, but I dug up the power supply today and managed to make progress on it, to the point where it's able to output a stable 12v under a light...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-02-2021, 03:57 AM
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Replies: 1,015
Views: 525,105
Re: The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage
Illinois Capacitor 47uf 25v.
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=238053&stc=1&d=1622627220
The one above tested at 213pf, but I also pulled two more that had failed, the...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-01-2021, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 1,015
Views: 525,105
Re: The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage
Yeah, it's a pain when this happens, i think it might be a bug. Now that first cap must have shorted out and burned a hole through the can, I wonder what it looked like to see it fail, probably...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-01-2021, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 1,015
Views: 525,105
Re: The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage
I can't see your photos, which leads me to guess they timed out while you were writing the post (since i can see they're all Badcaps URLs, so you didn't use 3rd party image hosts). I've had the exact...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Game Consoles & Other Weird Devices
05-30-2021, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 5,107
Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03 LED light
Can't say that comment aged well, as at some point, Philips somewhat cleaned up their act while GE and Sylvania cut corners on their lamps, possibly to make their LEDs look better in comparison, one...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
05-17-2021, 09:26 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 5,477
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