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  • c_hegge
    Badcaps Legend
    • Sep 2009
    • 5219
    • Australia

    #101
    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

    This was shawly not a 500W like it claimed to be. Notice the heat damage on the output. The wires were melted near the PCB. The funny thing is that when I peeled off the label with the SHAW brand, there ws another label claiming it was a Ritmo. Any ideas who made it? Maybe TaiwanBreakDownComponents Company? The heatsinks were OK-ish, but the 5vsb transistor was a total joke - about the same size as the one on kc8's echo star 480.
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    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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    • Agent24
      I see dead caps
      • Oct 2007
      • 4936
      • New Zealand

      #102
      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

      I've got a some 300 Watt Hyenas (Deer) that look better than that thing.
      "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
      -David VanHorn

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      • c_hegge
        Badcaps Legend
        • Sep 2009
        • 5219
        • Australia

        #103
        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

        I got a good picture of the wires. I stuck the 12v ones out (which were melted together) so you could see how discoloured they were.
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        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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        • goodpsusearch
          Badcaps Legend
          • Oct 2009
          • 2850
          • Greece

          #104
          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

          Linkworld

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          • momaka
            master hoarder
            • May 2008
            • 12168
            • Bulgaria

            #105
            Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

            That looks absolutely horrible. Did the fan seize? If not, I wonder what caused the thermal runaway. It doesn't help either that they put big low-ohm loading resistors on the secondary.
            And, yes, you can tell the 5vsb transistor was undersized - note the burn marks on its spot on the PCB.

            Originally posted by c_hegge
            TaiwanBreakDownComponents
            Probably a daughter company of HongKongFlyApart

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            • c_hegge
              Badcaps Legend
              • Sep 2009
              • 5219
              • Australia

              #106
              Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

              The fan did indeed quit on this PSU, which is probably why it got so hot.
              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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              • Agent24
                I see dead caps
                • Oct 2007
                • 4936
                • New Zealand

                #107
                Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                You wonder why people don't notice their fans making hideous grinding noises.... A friend of mine had a 133Mhz Pentium and the PSU fan was in terrible condition.

                I did not know about capacitor problems at that time but luckily we just replaced the whole PSU.
                "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
                -David VanHorn

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                • c_hegge
                  Badcaps Legend
                  • Sep 2009
                  • 5219
                  • Australia

                  #108
                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                  They probably notice, but because the PC still appears to be working, they don't care.
                  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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                  • goodpsusearch
                    Badcaps Legend
                    • Oct 2009
                    • 2850
                    • Greece

                    #109
                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                    Originally posted by c_hegge
                    They probably notice, but because the PC still appears to be working, they don't care.
                    qft

                    Btw, here in Greece, I see many Linkworlds (LPQ, LPH or LPK) that use Sleeve Bearing Globe Fans and as they work at full speed all the time they fail quite often.
                    Last edited by goodpsusearch; 11-22-2010, 10:36 PM.

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                    • c_hegge
                      Badcaps Legend
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 5219
                      • Australia

                      #110
                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                      Sky 550 watt. It looks like TaiwanBreakDownComponents Company got the transformer right, for once as it's a real 35 size, but everything else is wrong. The transient input filtering is missing (other than only 2 Y-caps), the primary switchers claim to be 13009s, but they look too small. On the secondary, we have a 16A fast recovery on the 12v and 20A schottkys for the other two rails. All of the caps are BH. The primaries are 470uF. All of the rails have a pair of 1000uF caps on them, except for the -12, which has a single 470uF. The fan looks like an off-brand (HongGu). Probably could be re-built like my rexpower, but I'm not in any mood that at the moment, so it will probably just die a spectacular death on my load tester or get the sledge hammer treatment.
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                      Last edited by c_hegge; 11-30-2010, 03:34 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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                      • ratdude747
                        Black Sheep
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 17136
                        • USA

                        #111
                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                        correct me if i am wrong, but it appears that the grounding pin on the AC connector goes nowhere

                        i would desolder the transformer out of it and find a junk small one to put in before you fry... the tranny might be good for a unit with a small tranny but good everything else

                        500w mein ezel, das ist sehr schlecht! (english: 500w my ass, that (power suppy) ist very bad!)

                        complete donkey poo...
                        Last edited by ratdude747; 11-30-2010, 06:09 AM.
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                        • c_hegge
                          Badcaps Legend
                          • Sep 2009
                          • 5219
                          • Australia

                          #112
                          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                          The ground wire does actually connect to the case. It's just not easy to see in the picture. But it is still a gutless wonder.
                          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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                          • c_hegge
                            Badcaps Legend
                            • Sep 2009
                            • 5219
                            • Australia

                            #113
                            Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                            It blew up at 277 watts on the load tester. Here's the carnaige
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                            Last edited by c_hegge; 11-30-2010, 11:08 PM. Reason: Add some pics of the carnaige
                            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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                            • momaka
                              master hoarder
                              • May 2008
                              • 12168
                              • Bulgaria

                              #114
                              Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                              Shame. It didn't look that bad actually. Definitely not 500W, but I would have expected it to do 250W continuous, maybe 300W for short durations.
                              At least you got spare parts now .

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                              • c_hegge
                                Badcaps Legend
                                • Sep 2009
                                • 5219
                                • Australia

                                #115
                                Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                Originally posted by momaka
                                ...It didn't look that bad actually...
                                Yes it did. It had no PI filter coils on the secondary and no way of adding them.
                                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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                                • goodpsusearch
                                  Badcaps Legend
                                  • Oct 2009
                                  • 2850
                                  • Greece

                                  #116
                                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                  What blew in it?

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                                  • c_hegge
                                    Badcaps Legend
                                    • Sep 2009
                                    • 5219
                                    • Australia

                                    #117
                                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                    Not sure. The primary swithers looked OK, although I didn't test them and they had gotten so hot that the plastic rings around the screws had melted. A few of the nearby resistors looked burned out, though. The burn mark is actually almost invisible on the component side of the PCB. Unforunately, I can't get any more pics as after it blew up, I scavenged the transformer and wires and gave it the sledge hammer treatment.
                                    Last edited by c_hegge; 12-01-2010, 05:56 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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                                    • 370forlife
                                      Large Marge
                                      • Aug 2008
                                      • 3112
                                      • United States

                                      #118
                                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                      Looks like the primary switchers blew out.

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                                      • c_hegge
                                        Badcaps Legend
                                        • Sep 2009
                                        • 5219
                                        • Australia

                                        #119
                                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                        Here's another shocker. Tiny transformer, miniscule heatsinks and half a PCB. The best part is, it's an FSP (more specifically, a Gigabyte "300W"). It did actually do 320W on the load tester, but the DMM wouldn't settle when I was reading the voltages.
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                                        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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                                        • goodpsusearch
                                          Badcaps Legend
                                          • Oct 2009
                                          • 2850
                                          • Greece

                                          #120
                                          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                          lol

                                          It must be loud.

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