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

    It was, but it's dead now.
    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

      Somewhat modern design. Two transistor forward, but no PFC.

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

        It may be modern, but it's still a gutless wonder. I expect better for $55.
        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

          $55 for THAT? I guess it's because it's got Gigabyte all over it.. what a ripoff.
          "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
          -David VanHorn

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

            That's an odd one. The part number 250-60HNN I can see on the PCB means it was probably designed for 250W, but there's no FSP of that model; instead there's a 250-60HHN (http://www.fsp-group.com.tw/english/...=176&proid=658), which is supposed to have a bottom-mounted 12cm fan. Perhaps a special part# for OEM, or maybe even a clone of the FSP?

            The ratings are strange too since they match up with none of the FSP models and the 12V rails are far out of balance (one at 8A, one at 14?) A little surprising and disappointing to see a big manufacturer like Gigabyte overrating its PSUs.

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

              I'm not surprised, Gigabyte are the masters of marketing hype (Or so someone told me once)
              "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
              -David VanHorn

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

                TT ATX-400, Burned input filtering and busted caps on the secondary. All the caps are YC/Yang Chun brand.
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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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                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                  Looks like one of the "safety" Y caps shorted. Proper Y caps are supposed to go open when they fail. Or perhaps the coil arced over.
                  Yet another low end Solytech.

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

                    Thermistor blew out, and filter choke burned up, 'cause switchers and/or primary rectifiers shorted. If you could believe its rating, the fuse is probably 8A. Mmmm... chip of the year.

                    Looks like that 'steel' was excess left over from the cheep 'n nasty scrapheaps disguised as cases. Gotta love the caps... Look! They used a TO-220 case rectifer for the 12v supply instead of two 3A FR diodes soldered to one of those stupid brackets...

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                    guilty of being cheap-made!

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

                      Gotta laugh at the label on this.
                      "High Grade Ower Upply"


                      No input filtering, Secondary caps are all Fuhjyyu and, surprise surprise, one Chemi-Con, No PI Filter coils

                      Other interesting thing is that there is no indication of where it was made. I'm assuming in China by HongKongFlyApart Company ®, LLC or in Taiwan by TaiwanBreakDownComponents Company ®
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                      Last edited by c_hegge; 03-01-2011, 06:44 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

                        JDDA? wannabe ADDA?

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

                          Originally posted by Scenic View Post
                          JDDA? wannabe ADDA?
                          That's what I was thinking
                          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

                            Originally posted by c_hegge View Post
                            "High Grade Ower Upply"
                            Hey, it must be high grade - it's got a single United Chemicon capacitor. Makes up for all the other missing parts, doesn't it?

                            At least it's somewhat honestly rated at 180W, though. Powmax would label this 880W.

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

                              L@hoo(.de) noname POS. came out of an Athlon64 3700+ (Socket 939) system..
                              i didn't even bother testing it.. opened it up and..well.. good thing i never tried to turn the system on with it





                              lahoo.de actually redirects to some kinda unknown company/shop named ONE.
                              the wiring on this is really pathetic.. 20AWG, with some 22AWG (!) thrown in the mix.. omg..
                              caps are all Canicon and SC/CS (the saturn logo) + 2 brown Su'scon on the secondary (which are actually the only non-bulging ones )

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

                                you mean YC for the saturn logo? thats them.
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                                (Insert witty quote here)

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

                                  At least it has an input filter???

                                  Why bother, with capacitors like that...

                                  Actually it looks like one of the less-crap Hyenas. The square grille gives it away.
                                  "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
                                  -David VanHorn

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

                                    LC-xxx model number, "2003" or "2002" PWM chip, phenolic board... it's another rebrand of the infamous L&C.

                                    Schematic ("200W" but they probably just reuse the same one for the "300" and "350"):
                                    http://www.apaczai.elte.hu/~04ahgy/P...0_atx_2003.gif
                                    (I'd trust this schematic the same as I'd trust that PSU, since they seem to have drawn it with the 5 and 3.3v connected together )
                                    Last edited by b700029; 03-03-2011, 04:50 PM.

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

                                      That makes sense, L&C, Hyena, Deer, Allied, Apex and Solytech (and others, including this one I guess) are all the same thing.

                                      Thanks for the schematic!
                                      "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
                                      -David VanHorn

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

                                        Sorry, I just can't let a good thread like this die. I got my hands on another Sky 550W-P4 unit, and, as well as load testing it, I put it on the oscilloscope. It failed after about 10 seconds at 250W load (no explosions this time though. I don't know what went wrong, but I don't care either), and at 200W, the ripple was out of spec on the 5 and 3.3v rails.
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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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                                          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                          Was that with dead capacitors or brand new?
                                          "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
                                          -David VanHorn

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