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

    we have the build quality pictorial, but i'm thinking a montage of just pure destruction, missing parts, etc.

    post pics of the WORST power supplies!

    ps- i partially doing for a friend who im trying to get to quit using A-POWER... he might need some nasty pics to convince him of what he is doing to his customers.
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    Here's an SP-350 with busted caps (a very common sight on these forums). Unlike I'm used to on Smartpowers, this one had tiny 330uF primaries, rather than the usual 680uF. Both of them were bloated, as well as the standby caps.
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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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      #3
      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

      I had some Deer DR-250ATX POS boxes....but I gave them to a friend. I heard he poured petrol inside them and had a little pyro fun

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        #4
        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

        I bet the caps would have all exploded (Primaries usually make the biggest bang when I put them in fire)!
        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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          #5
          Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

          are you sure that is safe... those primaries are like little grenades...
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            #6
            Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

            too bad i tossed several that would have been the poster child of junk psu's.
            its all been posted before.tossed 3 okia's yesterday and i think the metal junkers already grabbed them off the loading dock.

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              #7
              Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

              http://www.powsun.com/pcpower_newmicro.htm

              There, have a look at all of leadman's psu's. They even took the covers off for ya.

              http://www.powsun.com/pcpower_8868.htm

              Look at that one, just jumper through one primary cap, and put a 400v, 100uf fake UCC in there.

              http://www.powsun.com/pcpower_8869.htm

              That one is actually quite impressive for a leadman.
              Last edited by 370forlife; 12-19-2009, 04:00 PM.

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                #8
                Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                LOL what's this?

                http://www.powsun.com/pcpower_wangba.htm

                see last photo!

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                  #9
                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                  http://www.powsun.com/pcpower_8868two.htm
                  WTF is this?!

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                    #10
                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                    The epitome of cheap.

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                      #11
                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                      gotta love the one with the no roach label!

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                        #12
                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                        Originally posted by cheese007




                        Originally posted by kc8adu
                        gotta love the one with the no roach label!


                        Last edited by ratdude747; 12-19-2009, 06:28 PM.
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                          #13
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                          wow look at those amperage ratings. I wonder how many companies rebrand that exact unit as a 600W.

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                            #14
                            Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                            I Just found the best site for pics burned/blown computer parts

                            http://www.halfdone.com/Personal/Job...and_Exploding/

                            Has pics of busted caps as well as burned PSUs, motherboards etc.
                            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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                              #15
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                              nice link!
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                                #16
                                Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                oklahoma wolf posted a couple that should be here:

                                antec TPQ 1200W

                                blown after re-soldering components

                                Originally posted by Oklahoma Wolf
                                For those interested in pics of what happened after I got it back together:



                                Third one from the left blew first, the rest followed.



                                Damage to main filter cap.



                                If you look closely at the center of the pic, you will see a blown apart SMD transistor and a fried SMD resistor near it. There's another blown SMD transistor on the right side of the pic.
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                                  #17
                                  Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                  Originally posted by ratdude747
                                  blown after re-soldering components
                                  It took long term heating with a 60W iron to even desolder those parts during disassembly - methinks the SMD parts nearby didn't appreciate that.

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                                    #18
                                    Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                    Originally posted by ratdude747

                                    Compare that 250W Powsun to a 90W Delta/Newton:

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                                      #19
                                      Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                      Originally posted by Oklahoma Wolf
                                      It took long term heating with a 60W iron to even desolder those parts during disassembly - methinks the SMD parts nearby didn't appreciate that.
                                      smd components simply do not belong in power supplies... this is why. too many large components. the right way would have been old skool though-hole parts.
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                                        #20
                                        Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

                                        Originally posted by larrymoencurly
                                        Compare that 250W Powsun to a 90W Delta/Newton:

                                        To be fair, that one is actually rated for 150w (the label pictured is from another PSU on that site), but still...

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