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Dammit! My PSU burned a ceramic capacitor!

Shawn

Shawn

Lifer
And I can't tell what the ratings are because they burned off. Of course I already opened it and broke the warranty seal. Think Newegg will still let me return it? It's been less than a year.

edit: pic
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Pic of the cap?

Burning ceramics = rare.
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I dunno what I did with it. I think it fell out of my pocket on the way to radioshack. 🙁 It was black though and said:

NTC
5? - 11

Where the ? is got burned off so I don't know what it said.
 
so replace it with a 1uF or something... it's 60hz to DC, not likely to be too dependent on frequency-dependent components.
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
COLORSit or something. I dunno. It was cheap. It had cool LEDs though.
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Current tally of power supplies with cool LEDs that aren't likely to blow up after six months: one
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Pic of the cap?

Burning ceramics = rare.
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Pic

Where can I find a replacement so I can get this damn thing working again? All radioshack has is 0.1uF which I know is not enough.
 
If you want to be dishonest, just take a lighter to the warranty sticker and say it burnt up, too, as well as putting someburn marks on the PCB near where it would be.

If you want to be smart, don't buy no name PSUs just because they look pretty or you'll hate yourself when they F' up a part thatis more expensive than the $20 extra you would have spent on a decent PSU.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
If you want to be dishonest, just take a lighter to the warranty sticker and say it burnt up, too, as well as putting someburn marks on the PCB near where it would be.

If you want to be smart, don't buy no name PSUs just because they look pretty or you'll hate yourself when they F' up a part thatis more expensive than the $20 extra you would have spent on a decent PSU.
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Well I only paid $34 for the PSU shipped. So it's probably not worth the trouble of trying to RMA it anyway. I seem to remember paying more, guess not. Anyway I replaced it with a 550w $26 one from newegg. I'll make sure not to open this one when it dies so I can RMA it. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Injury
If you want to be dishonest, just take a lighter to the warranty sticker and say it burnt up, too, as well as putting someburn marks on the PCB near where it would be.

If you want to be smart, don't buy no name PSUs just because they look pretty or you'll hate yourself when they F' up a part thatis more expensive than the $20 extra you would have spent on a decent PSU.
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Well I only paid $34 for the PSU shipped. So it's probably not worth the trouble of trying to RMA it anyway. I seem to remember paying more, guess not. Anyway I replaced it with a 550w $26 one from newegg. I'll make sure not to open this one when it dies so I can RMA it. 😛
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You think you would have learned your lesson to pay a bit more for a non explosive psu...
 
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