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

    If that could do 500 Watts I would eat my desolder wick
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      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

      Zone dangereuse and the house image…yeah, I bet this can make yur house a dangerous place
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        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

        Those were fairly common here a few years ago, but were branded Rexpower or Maxpower.
        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

          Originally posted by Agent24 View Post
          If that could do 500 Watts I would eat my desolder wick
          i would eat my flash drive!
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          Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore

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

            Model PL-500RPG
            That's an upgrade over a Powmax.

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              Hahaha. Love the replies I just realized how small that 5VSB transformer is, I imagine it would struggle over 1.25A

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

                What brand are those primary caps?

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

                  Originally posted by cheapie View Post
                  What brand are those primary caps?
                  Looks like they were trying to copy NCC's style of caps
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                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                    Originally posted by Pentium4 View Post
                    Looks like they were trying to copy NCC's style of caps
                    LOL, more of those cunngga capacitors!

                    How do you know the primary switchers are fake? Could you post a pic?
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                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                      200W, OK; 250W, pushing it; 300W, dull red glow; 500W, brief incendiary event.

                      I wonder if use of unapproved Y caps like this POS was behind the death of that Chinese person who had an after-market iPhone charger.
                      PeteS in CA

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

                        Originally posted by ben7 View Post
                        LOL, more of those cunngga capacitors!

                        How do you know the primary switchers are fake? Could you post a pic?
                        Same picture as in the badcaps photo gallery

                        They have the Fairchild F, with no dash through the F and they just look cheap. I will post a picture of them later tonight
                        Originally posted by PeteS in CA View Post
                        200W, OK; 250W, pushing it; 300W, dull red glow; 500W, brief incendiary event.

                        I wonder if use of unapproved Y caps like this POS was behind the death of that Chinese person who had an after-market iPhone charger.
                        "500W, brief incendiary event."

                        It's possible that's what happened. How do they get away with using the unapproved Y caps?

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

                          Regime does not care as long as ransoom (taxes etc.) is payed.
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                            Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                            Get away with using unapproved caps? Maybe the agency marks are bogus. If real, the samples provided the agencies for testing had the right parts, and then cheaper unapproved parts usd in production. How much risk is there for a fly-by-night mfr?
                            PeteS in CA

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

                              What agencies? Nobody officialy cares! You can just stick CE on anything and sell in Europe. Well, you actually probably even do not need to do that, nobody checks even the bloody CE mark…

                              Not that I am calling anybody doing it! Customer is the one responsible, all the socialists can go f*ck themselvs with restrictions and regulations and controls. Does not help anyway, does it.
                              Last edited by Behemot; 09-10-2013, 03:55 PM.
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                                Can you confirm this is a bad capacitor?

                                I'm new to this but having an issue with my cyberpower PR2200LCDRTXL2U ups
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                                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                  btw they are Su'scon 2200uF 63v capacitors.

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

                                    That's just glue.

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

                                      If it was fine prior to power off, I would suspect an issue with a startup circuit. Since the startup is only needed at.. startup... constantly running the thing will not show an issue until you power it off and try to turn it on again.

                                      Those capacitors *look* fine, not bulging or leaking, BUT Su'scon is nothing special.
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                                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                        Originally posted by Agent24 View Post
                                        If it was fine prior to power off, I would suspect an issue with a startup circuit. Since the startup is only needed at.. startup... constantly running the thing will not show an issue until you power it off and try to turn it on again.

                                        Those capacitors *look* fine, not bulging or leaking, BUT Su'scon is nothing special.
                                        hmmm can I get a second confirming that its just glue?

                                        That sucks as it is the only obvious thing I can see.

                                        Does anyone have someone in New York city (I'm in Brooklyn heights) that they can recommend to check it out?

                                        I'm comfortable pulling the board and soldering replacement capacitors but out of my league to trouble shoot a circuit.

                                        I tested the batteries (52v at terminal and 12v on each individual battery) so don't think that's the issue.

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

                                          The glue gets conductive, this was never supposed to be used in electronics so if it is already brown somewhere, clean it out. Check all fuses and power semiconductors. And preferably open your own thread for this issue…
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