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Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 11th, 2011, 4:53 pm
by shovenose
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 6:50 am
by TECHN0
I'm not sure what that all means but that was a lot of smoke!
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 1:54 pm
by c_hegge
Essentially, they're trying to demonstrate the the problem with having a too powerful 12v rail without good OCP. In relity, though, you won't find a short circuit like that in your PC.
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 5:38 pm
by shovenose
Well, c_hegge, guess who gave me a link to that?
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 10:18 pm
by c_hegge
Awful Nasty Trash with Exploding Capacitors? (Antec)
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 10:27 pm
by shovenose
Yep. Now if that was an Antec PSU he wouldn't have given me the link.
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 10:30 pm
by c_hegge
I think it's just antec trying to rubbish PSUs which are actually better than their own.
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 10:33 pm
by shovenose
of course. now if only they would send you some to review...maybe even get you to say something nice about them...
lol im kidding,
did you ever call them?
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 10:36 pm
by c_hegge
Not yet. I've been that flat out between work and a a few family responsibilities that I haven't had time.
RE: Corsair Short Circuit Fail
Posted:
April 13th, 2011, 10:45 pm
by shovenose
i see.
its not a problem, i was just curious what their response was