Power supply blew up today!

[Rubycon]

She means a transistor - most likely a MOSFET in a modern supply. 🙂

Yes you are correct! 😳

 

[CraigRT]

A 6800GT in my old A64/SLI box died some months ago, I've been bummed about it for a while. Paid $350 for that thing back in the day :| Other than that, no hardware deaths due to anything other than lightning several years ago. A lot of my hardware isn't too important to me anymore, but I would be very sad if my old A7N8X died - it was my main rig for some 6 years (even survived lightning + failed power supply).

I still have an A7V880 in service with a 2400 T-bred. Rock solid! (my folks PC)

 

[PandaBear]

Haven't gotten any explosion due to failure of any components. But I have to say the Dell stuff I got failed a lot earlier than the stuff I build, maybe because the new stuff aren't what they used to be?

Power supply of a Power Edge SC420 only last me 3 years, RAM only lasted me 4 years. Found them out by swapping parts around, and when they were failing, they just crash rather than explode.

I've had some industrial power explosion though, some industrial supply were placed in a wrong spot and when a silicon wafer fell on top of it and shatter, boom.... Almost kill someone with all those fragments of sharp silicon.

 

[bigboxes]

Today, I decided I'd take one more look at the ol' power supply before I threw it away. Upon closer inspection this looks to be built by CWT (Channel Well Technology). It uses two 680 µF200v Fuhjyyu as the main capacitors. It looks really well built. I know that badcaps.net lists Fuhjyyu as a "bad caps" maker, but if they've lasted ten years then they can't be that bad. Maybe they cheaped out soon afterwards. I'm not privy to that info. It was baffeling me that I could not find any evidence of failure even though I'd witnessed a flame-up and smoking. Just as I was about to give up I found the point of failure. It was located on a circuit board that was mounted upside-down sitting a top the PSU's heatsinks just behind the cooling fan.