I got this PSU tester recently:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CTCD6S
I used it to test one of my PSUs and it worked fine.
But I have another PSU - an old PSU that I got from someone off ebay about 10 years ago, which I ended up never using and it just sat on the shelf since then. I decided to use the tester on it. I plugged the PSU into the tester and turned the PSU on. After a couple seconds, the PSU started making a weird noise, and then smoke started coming out of the PSU. I quickly unplugged it.
Is there any chance the tester could have caused that PSU to start smoking? Or could the PSU have just died after sitting on the shelf for so long?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CTCD6S
I used it to test one of my PSUs and it worked fine.
But I have another PSU - an old PSU that I got from someone off ebay about 10 years ago, which I ended up never using and it just sat on the shelf since then. I decided to use the tester on it. I plugged the PSU into the tester and turned the PSU on. After a couple seconds, the PSU started making a weird noise, and then smoke started coming out of the PSU. I quickly unplugged it.
Is there any chance the tester could have caused that PSU to start smoking? Or could the PSU have just died after sitting on the shelf for so long?
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