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What to do with a dead PC power supply?
datora:
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--- Quote from: Saras on July 19, 2012, 09:44:54 AM ---Get a soldering iron and start experimenting.
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Well ... yeah. That's what I'm asking: any ideas what to try?
@kitamesume - thanks for the Wikipedia link. Should have started there. Gave me a lot of info to get started.
Found this forum while searching for stuff: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ Looks like a fun community; I think I'm going to re-post my question there. I had this book (in a couple of versions at one point), but this website also has a lot of good tech info archived: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/
And, c'mon guys ... creative suggestions, please. Landfill doesn't really fit that category. Believe it or not, I figured out how to throw shit away quite some time ago ... ::)
halfelite:
If you ever plan on running water cooling, you could make the psu into a reservoir tank. You could take it apart try to fix it and turn it into a work bench psu for testing different things, De solder all the parts and keep them around as spares. or randomly short out things and plug it in to watch it go up in smoke
Pentium100:
See if the power supply can be repaired, maybe it's just a burned transistor or something. Otherwise, you can keep the PSU for parts, it has some powerful transistors, diodes, big caps, heatsinks etc. Also, as I do not like driving to the store for a single resistor, I try to see if a dead PSU has the resistor I need first (unless I am already planning to go to the store for other parts).
Freedom Kira:
Isn't it really hot and dry where you live? How about tweaking it to overdrive a giant fan? =D
If not, you should totally chain together all the inductor coils and build a Tesla coil.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on July 19, 2012, 09:10:11 PM ---Isn't it really hot and dry where you live? How about tweaking it to overdrive a giant fan? =D
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Big fans are usually AC and connect directly to the mains. Well, at least the ones available to me - I have a 17cm and a 25cm fan, they both can be plugged straight to 220V.
You can make AC fan spin faster (usually), but that requires a frequency converter, it would a bit difficult to build one from all the parts in a PC power supply. Though the big fans I have spin at about the same speed whether the frequency is 50Hz or 60Hz (it is written so in the datasheets, I have not tried connecting them to 60Hz).
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