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    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

    Originally posted by c_hegge View Post
    I bet no one thought a Delta would ever end up on here, but today I have just that - a destroyed delta. THe fan was branded T&T (Thieves & Thugs ?) and it quit. ..... The cool part is, it still runs
    Well, to be fair, it's a Delta, it still runs, it probably isn't gutless, and it was all the fault of the fan anyway.

    Certainly bloated and fried though!
    "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

      CapXon and Ltec would fail anyway... note the unbulged Taicon, those actually seem like OK caps, haven't seen any fail YET. It's less ambient temperature and more ripple current that kills crap caps.
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        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

        I removed the caps today, and I got a photo with some better light. Now you can really see how bad the heat discolouration is

        EDIT: I also took the failed fan apart, and I think there was more to this than just bad sleeve bearings. It looks like there was lots of rust around the magnet on the blade housing and on the motor
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        Last edited by c_hegge; 09-07-2012, 12:45 AM.
        I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

        No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

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          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

          Not nice, really. In some worse fans when sometimes the magnet tends to rub against motor I lubricate it with vaseline. Maybe if you will clean it you can as well use itfor conserving again corosion.
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            Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

            I probably won't worry. I have a few spare Yate Loon fans which are in much better condition, so I'll probably just replace it with one of them

            EDIT: I probably should also add that the plastic washer which holds the blade housing to the motor crumbled when I took the fan apart.
            Last edited by c_hegge; 09-07-2012, 04:37 AM.
            I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

            No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

            Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

            Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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              Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

              I wonder if the rust is what jammed it?

              Looks like you forgot to desolder the leads of C103?
              "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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                Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                Originally posted by Agent24 View Post
                Looks like you forgot to desolder the leads of C103?
                Oh bloody hell
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                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                  R.I.P. to that Delta. That thing is SCORCHED!!!

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                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                    If that power supply lacks protection circuitry of any sort, that may be why it still works with bloated capacitors.

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                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                      Originally posted by Agent24 View Post
                      Looks like you forgot to desolder the leads of C103?
                      That one really didn't want to come out (maybe due to the generous use of glue on that leg). The other leg broke was I was trying to bend and twist the cap out of there.
                      Last edited by c_hegge; 09-07-2012, 04:20 PM.
                      I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

                      No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

                      Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

                      Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                        Pliers?
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                          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                          ^
                          Yes
                          I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

                          No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

                          Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

                          Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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                            fried Apple power supply

                            There's me happily using my old Apple PowerBook 1400, then the next time I come to use it, nothing. So I open up the little brown brick (the official power supply) and was amazed to discover the destruction shown in the pik. I have no idea what caused it.
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                              Re: fried Apple power supply

                              Originally posted by itwentboom View Post
                              There's me happily using my old Apple PowerBook 1400, then the next time I come to use it, nothing. So I open up the little brown brick (the official power supply) and was amazed to discover the destruction shown in the pik. I have no idea what caused it.
                              Looks like a diode and two resistors burned.
                              Muh-soggy-knee

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                                Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                Originally posted by c_hegge View Post
                                I removed the caps today, and I got a photo with some better light. Now you can really see how bad the heat discolouration is
                                Wow! That really is the most toasty, well-done PSU PCB I've seen. I'm surprised the output choke didn't burn.

                                Originally posted by c_hegge View Post
                                EDIT: I also took the failed fan apart, and I think there was more to this than just bad sleeve bearings. It looks like there was lots of rust around the magnet on the blade housing and on the motor
                                Not good.
                                Although likely salvageable if you cared enough to fix it. I would - extra spare junk fans for the random project never hurt. Sandpaper and a bit of oil is really all you need. When I find a fan that has started to get rust on the stator, I just lube it with machine oil.
                                Last edited by momaka; 09-09-2012, 05:05 PM.

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                                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                  As I stated, I use vaseline, it is better I think. Oil just vaporizes or dries out due to absorption in dust. Vaseline is more durable I think and lubricates even full of dust.
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                                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                    I have a large box full of spare fans. I only ever keep really good fans nowadays.
                                    I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

                                    No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

                                    Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

                                    Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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                                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                      Here is an 8 years old Antec that was still running, though a bit unstable. Nice collection of toasted caps awaits:
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                                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                        What model is that?? Looks like some very old topology.
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                                          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                          Looks pretty good apart from the Fuhjyyu crap
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