hks85

I was on here last week reading about peltiers and it inspired me to mod a power supply I had laying around. the power supply is a PowerKing ATX-PK400 specs are as follows...

+3.3v=28A +5v=30A +12v=25A DC out is rated at 400w

back when i was using it, it was a good power supply though the fan started to get a little loud and never really blew too much air anyway. So the first thing was to change out the fan with a Masscool 80mm 32cfm fan (no leds)


Next I removed all wires accept the 12v, ground & power on.


I then got about 20" of 8-awg power wire from some car audio stuff. I was all out of black so i used red for the + & -. I drilled out two holes in the board to fit the larger wire and commenced soldering.





Perhaps i didn't need 8 awg wire (i know i didn't) for this little power but it cost me all of nothing and I got to have a little fun.

CyberDruid

Just take care that the capacitors are discharged and keep going--looks like twizzlers LOL. Why not--have some fun.

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hks85

If they did discharge, it wouldnt be the first time. the nerves are screwed up at the tip of my right index finger from one of those. I had one discharge through my finger and burn me. ever since then I get weird feelings at the tip, usually a burning feeling or just no feeling at all. Its such a small part that it doesn't affect me so i dont really care. just another war story.

PaRaDoX

I cut my finger with a razor blade and its fubar now, when ever i touch the scar my whole hand goes numb

Nice PSU btw, paint the outside of it too

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DuckieHo

Your caps look blown and this PSU may be dead. Is the brown stuff on top of the three capacitor died up electrolyte fluid? Or is it just glue?

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noshibby

looks like glue because you can see a strand of it going from one to the next

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Delphi

Yea i agree with that too it looks like glue

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hks85

glue!

yeah i was thinking the same thing when i opened it up but hey it still works. thing that sucks is that I dont have a peltier to hook it up to yet. oh well in due time

Cory101

It's glue when you blow a cap the top bulges or juse splits open. They put glue on it to keep the cap in place.

DuckieHo

Glue <> capacitor fluid. If a cap is bulging or split open... IT IS DEFECTIVE. No amount of glue in the world would fix it. Why revive this old tread?

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