Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

[duckula]

Note: This thread was originally posted on CPSRF by shovenose. And this is one of my favourite threads. Since shove doesn't have time to transport it from CPSRF to here, I think perhaps I can do it for him.

Please post pictures of PSU innards here.

I'll start with a PCB shot of the Seventeam ST-650PWL power supply to show you just how ugly can a PCB be! Read the full review here, if you fancy. This is the same platforum as the coolermaster GX650.

[shovenose]

thanks duckula!

by the way, your post says

shove does have time

, im not sure if you wanted that

[duckula]

Thanks Michael. lol I meant "doesn't".

[duckula]

Antec's planning on replacing BP series with VP series and they just added a new model into their VP line-up. Yep, it's Delta (the Delta mark on its transformer is a giveaway) again and currently it is listed on 360buy (an equivalent of Newegg in China) for RMB269 yuan(approximately US$41). It's 230VAC only.

















[hr]
I'm excepting someone shoots antec with rapid fire machine gun. (That's in jest)

[c_hegge]

LTEC Caps... Antec just won't learn their lesson

antec (as Duckula predicted)

btw, the soldering on that seventeam looks a lot like my soldering.

[duckula]

So you are on par with Seventeam in term of soldering.

[c_hegge]

Vantec Ion2+ 620W. looks a bit like an old school half bridge design with that big grounding wire coming from the transformer. The caps are all panny FC, although that's because I recapped it. originals were a mix of Jun Fu and el-cheapo teapo. Not sure, but I think Andyson is the OEM

It was powering my main rig untill it failed and was replaced with my re-built rexpower 400W and later an In Win power man 600W (80+ Bronze with apfc)

[shovenose]

Are you gonna either fix it or reuse the caps?
It looks decent, but the heatsinks remind me of a raidmax!

[duckula]

FSP Aurum 500W power supply. at the secondary heatsink. There's one good capacitor (primary cap, hitachi) with a bunch of junks caps. (the rest except the primay one. Crapxcon). The main topology used on/in (help me decide which preprosition I should use, thanks:D) this unit is Active Clamp Forward.

[c_hegge]

Antec SU-380. Removed from a Solution series case with bad caps (Only Some Trash) and recapped with panny FC. Some of you may recognise this from CPSRF, but since I re-capped it, I can't accurately test the ripple. OEM is seasonic. It has beefy heatsinks and good silicon, but let down by the caps and the death ADDA.