Re: [H] Antec TruePower is OUT

[Hayes Elkins]

Antec has also had lots of RMA'd phantom 350's (the fanless, silent units). 
They are releasing a 500w unit, wonder how many FUBAR'd units will show up 
by then.

From: warpmedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [H] Antec TruePower is OUT
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:01:54 -0400
Wow, that sucks and doesn't sound good for Antec. Are you going to at least 
RMA them back to Antec to see if they'll stand behind them repair wise?

What was the load you had on them?
Greg Sevart wrote:
So, I have lost all faith in Antec's power supplies. I have three of them 
here...two of them have died in the last two weeks. They exist in 
different ZIP codes, so it wasn't a surge. Both are behind UPS. The first 
simply stopped providing a high +5v rail, the second went snap, crackle, 
pop, and smoke tonight while I was typing an essay. Both were 
True550's...two dead within two weeks is enough to scare me away. I was 
even willing to forgive the first failure...but not two.

So what did I replace it with? A Seasonic S12 600W. $188 shipped next-day 
air from Newegg. I would have liked to have gone with a PCP&C Turbo-Cool 
510W, but that would have been >$250 by the time you include next day air 
shipping. Sparkle/FSP doesn't make a unit that provided the sort of 
current/rail combinations I was looking for.

Luckily, my hard drives appear to have survived the failure. I have no 
idea if the motherboard/CPUs/RAM/cards are still OK, as my emergency FSP 
400W is out on loan, and all other power supplies are back at home.

Bleh.
Greg