- Joined
- Aug 30, 2004
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA
I was in my lab and in walked corpsejockey with a PSU in his hand. He says "I know you are gonna like this" ith an evil grin. I was a bit curious at this point and took a look at the unit he handed over to me. It was an Antec SP-400
Now the workmanship is not bad and the unit looks to even have individual regulation (look at the three transformers). A few other points to note were the use of surge protection, X, Y caps, Metal oxide varistors and a bridge rectifier. Looks decent so far.
Then this happened
Almost all the Fujjy's on the secondary side are bulging/bad. I cannot understand why CWT are persisting with this crap? Corpse tells me this unit was in use for about 1.5 yrs on what basically was a lightly loaded rig. I'm gonna recap the entire secondary side. Some of the caps seem hard to reach (especially the tiny ones), but I think I can find suitable replacements for the rest.
Wolf has done this before, so I'm going to ask him for a place to buy the replacement sizes. The tall one's are a damn odd size.
As long as CWT use Fujjy caps: NEVER BUY CWT BUILT Fujjhyed ANTECS IF YOU VALUE YOUR HARDWARE!
Now the workmanship is not bad and the unit looks to even have individual regulation (look at the three transformers). A few other points to note were the use of surge protection, X, Y caps, Metal oxide varistors and a bridge rectifier. Looks decent so far.
Then this happened
Almost all the Fujjy's on the secondary side are bulging/bad. I cannot understand why CWT are persisting with this crap? Corpse tells me this unit was in use for about 1.5 yrs on what basically was a lightly loaded rig. I'm gonna recap the entire secondary side. Some of the caps seem hard to reach (especially the tiny ones), but I think I can find suitable replacements for the rest.
Wolf has done this before, so I'm going to ask him for a place to buy the replacement sizes. The tall one's are a damn odd size.
As long as CWT use Fujjy caps: NEVER BUY CWT BUILT Fujjhyed ANTECS IF YOU VALUE YOUR HARDWARE!
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