Antec 480W Trueblue owners..

[dacull]

Hi,
I have yet to see the rear fan on my trueblue spin up, is this normal or have i got a dud PSU.. It has these features to only spin up when it needs too, but It seems a bit unusual to me that I have never seen this Fan spin...

Any info gratefully received..

 

[Tiamat]

Interesting. Mine is just over 2 years old - before SATA. and the back 80mm fan spins. According to my hardware monitor, both fans spin at 1700-1900 rpms. Open up your case and touch the outside of your psu. Is it excruciatingly (sp?) hot? If it is, i would be concerned.

 

[Jeff7]

I would also expect the fans in a PSU to always be spinning. I've got two Truepower 430's, and though the fans spin slowly (around 1400rpms), they do still always spin.
Try e-mailing Antec about it. Maybe your system uses so little power that the fan doesn't need to spin. Or maybe you've got a dead fan or fan-power-supply circuit. Their RMA process is a bit slow though - was for me anyway. I shipped the PSU to them (blown fan circuit) by Priority Mail (2 days), hey ship by UPS ground. California to Pennsylvania was near to the full 10 days, so I was without a PC for about 2 weeks. I don't think that they offer advance RMA like hard drive manufacturers do.

 

[dacull]

Thanks both of you for your detailed answers.

I too suspect that the fan circuitry is not working as it should, I have already mailed Antec and I am waiting for a response from them. I have been touching the PSU and it is hot, but then I guess PSUs do get hot. I'm not sure how hot is too hot 🙂 I don't think it is because i am not using enough power, the setup is a Athlon64 3500+ and overclocked 6800 GT, two SATA hard drives.


Interesting that it takes so long for them to RMA, maybe i should return to the place I bought it for a new and let them take care of it. Very annoying to buy a brand new quality? PSU and for it to arrive with a major failure, lots of hassle to unbuild the system 🙁

Thanks for your advice..