FYI on Power Supplies

finsfree

finsfree

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I bought a 450w power supply. I hooked it up to one of my optical drives and melted all the wires. Come to find out that from the factory the wires were crossed (meaning the GND was in the wrong place and the power was in the wrong place).:mad:

Make sure you check the wires on your SPU before you use it.:rolleyes:
 
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That sucks dick dude. You could probably get some serious reparations for that shit! What if you were physically harmed, etc. Some people's systems , even 450 watters, cost in excess of $500 - that's just sick!
 
Yeah, tell me about it!

The wires started smoking and melting. I grabbed them to pull it out and burnt myself. This is not my PC it's a customers.

It was really ****ed up! :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
finsfree said:
I bought a 450w power supply. I hooked it up to one of my optical drives and melted all the wires. Come to find out that from the factory the wires were crossed (meaning the GND was in the wrong place and the power was in the wrong place).:mad:

Make sure you check the wires on your SPU before you use it.:rolleyes:
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Was it a cheap china brand power supply? If so i expect this kinda crap... if it was a quality antec/corsair/ocz/etc then damn....
 
Mitch? said:
What the hell did you just say??? :confused:
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Could you have plugged in the POwer supply to test it prior to install - or is there something visible that you'd have looked for to prevent this from happening.

When I build a PC - if that happens to me - I won't have the funds to replace everything that gets fried and have another year of a PC that's already old - so I'd like to be extra thorough to avoid what happened to you.

Basically I'm trying to learn from your experience on this one.:D
 
Jamin43 said:
Could you have plugged in the POwer supply to test it prior to install - or is there something visible that you'd have looked for to prevent this from happening.

When I build a PC - if that happens to me - I won't have the funds to replace everything that gets fried and have another year of a PC that's already old - so I'd like to be extra thorough to avoid what happened to you.

Basically I'm trying to learn from your experience on this one.:D
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If you wanna avoid problems like this just get a decent power supply like Corsair, OCZ, PcPower&Cooling, Seasonic, Antec, etc
 
The plug was getting the right amount of voltage it's just the wires where in the wrong place going into the plug.

Meaning, on a normal power supply, going from one side to the other, it goes yellow, black, black then red.

The wires on this PSU went yellow, black, red, black. Do you know what happens then you have wires in this order...smoke, melted plastic and burnt ass hand. :eek:

Check the color of your wires guys...thats an order!!!
 
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