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Im studying as an electoronics engineer at the moment. Turns out that if your project doesn't work, you shouldn't bother finding out what the root cause is, you simply heatgun the **** out of the PCB until it works or the caps explode. I also found that when reflowing, you should never attempt to heat the board evenly using an oven, but instead heat a specific area at once with a heatgun which definitely wont cause any weakening or deforming of the PCB which in turn will not break tracks. I also learned that highly sensitive ICs are designed to not get damaged at such temperatures which is my heatsinks are actually pointless...
 
Gundog48 said:
Im studying as an electoronics engineer at the moment. Turns out that if your project doesn't work, you shouldn't bother finding out what the root cause is, you simply heatgun the **** out of the PCB until it works or the caps explode. I also found that when reflowing, you should never attempt to heat the board evenly using an oven, but instead heat a specific area at once with a heatgun which definitely wont cause any weakening or deforming of the PCB which in turn will not break tracks. I also learned that highly sensitive ICs are designed to not get damaged at such temperatures which is my heatsinks are actually pointless...
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i use tinfoil as a thermal shield and cut out where the chips im re flowing are, and i don't put it in the oven, i use a heatgun
 
SheepBeast said:
...that's the point he was making :rolleyes:
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Considering the typing/spelling ability he has shown in this thread so far as well as his critical thinking skills, I think your assumption of his ability to read, comprehend, and digest sarcasm is a bit of a stretch mate!

If that counts as a personal attack, then well, I didn't mean it to. Odds are he won't read this anyway, so no great loss either way, I just hope we get some good pictures in here of the build/repairs/upgrades/MASSIVE house party that's going to ensue after 600Watts of ebays finest turns up :p
 
guess what arrived in the post today ?
POWER!!!!
will get some pictures up in a bit, i am currently modding it to run an amp :)
and yes, its a beast, very heavy and most of the caps are solid... :p
 
ZZZAC said:
turns out i didn't do a very good job
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No shocker there then.

ZZZAC said:
most of the caps are solid... :p
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Sounds good quality...

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most high quality power supply's don't use a single solid cap, and usually is pretty easy to base a power supply's quality on its weight, if its heavier there's more inside and most probably more cooling... usually of higher quality, if its featherweight there's not allot in there and not much to cool it, as for the 1300watt blade psu i just finished modding its a lot heavier than an xbox 360, and its packed full of solid caps high power fans and everything else that is good
 
so if a crap brand uses copper heatsinks and a brand like corsair uses aluminium heatsinks, according to you the corsair is less reliable
 
KiiYzOo said:
so if a crap brand uses copper heatsinks and a brand like corsair uses aluminium heatsinks, according to you the corsair is less reliable
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surely (unless something in this aluminium has changed dramatic) coper heat sinks are better because they are better at conducting heat?

The point is more to do with the fact they have used more materials and , well even in a corsair power supply you'd be lucky to find more than 2 solid capacitors
 
ZZZAC said:
surely (unless something in this aluminium has changed dramatic) coper heat sinks are better because they are better at conducting heat?

The point is more to do with the fact they have used more materials and , well even in a corsair power supply you'd be lucky to find more than 2 solid capacitors
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Because using solid caps instantly means that it's better.

Chinese solid cap < Japanese 'wet' cap
 
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