On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 01:24:29AM -0500, Chip Rosenthal wrote:
| Taral writes:
| > Where should I go to get a good power supply?
|
| That really stinks. But I'll tell you, all the umpteen times I've
| taken apart a PC power supply and tried to repair or replace the
| fan, I've ended up needing or wanting to replace the entire supply
| anyway eventually.
Hmm, I've never had much trouble with it, and I've done it several
times. Often the hardest part is finding a fan that's the right size ...
I wish PC's could monitor things like fan speed an internal
temperature like workstations can ... I know that the new MB's offer
cpu temperature and fan speed readings, but we need the PS too. I've
had more than one fan go belly up and some part of the system fry
because of it. Now I typically go for multiple fans, but even so,
it's not always obvious when one of them goes ...
| I haven't been in a while, but AES (up north) is one of my favorite
| local places for (new) components.
|
| My personal bias is to go with UL-listed supplies. (Back when I
| was consulting, that was kind of important so I didn't get my ass
| sued off if a machine went *boom*.) The UL-listing doesn't say
| jack about product quality, but my feeling is that if they aren't
| willing to put that small amount of effort into safety tests, who
| knows what other corners they've cut in product design and quality.
As far as I know, they're *all* UL-listed. As if they had to be by
law or something. But maybe I'm wrong.
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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