22 Feb
2009
22 Feb
'09
12:33 p.m.
js at cimmeri.com wrote:
*Rob, possibly you made the 110/240 switch wrong, but
also possible is
that the PSU just wasn't ready to be turned on like that. Electrolytic
Capacitors (of which there are many in that PSU) tend towards
non-functionality the longer they sit unused. Without those caps
working right, the PSU will do pops, smokes, and other alarming things.
Then good luck fixing it.
I have to say, for all the talk of failing caps in power supplies I've
only ever seen one electrolytic cap fail *ever*, and that was last week
in a one-year-old graphics card that has hardly ever been powered off...
Gordon