Remember the Hiper 'Explosive' 580W PSUs? Why did they blow up?

[Akagi]

Does anyone recall what the point of failure was?

I just picked one up in a lot of retro gear, and was going to use it until I remembered vaguely that they had a bit of a reputation...

Looking at the power outputs, is it possible people were just exceeding the 360W at the 12V?

Was it just one revision or all of them? This is a Type M V2

 

[Akagi]

Righto. A shame cos it's a decent looking PSU.

I was mainly just curious what part caused them to fail lol.

 

[Akagi]

It was the Type R ( the Modular one ) that got the bad rep.

16 years ago, how time flies

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I had assumed (perhaps wrongly) that both were the same internally?

this is a 10 on the **** around/find out graph lol

I do enjoy me some unnecessary risk taking...

But I have opted to use one of my other more modern PSUs for this project... I chickened out.

Still curious though.

 

[Akagi]

It has stayed on the shelf since making this thread.

Perhaps somewhen I will give it a test with some hardware I don't much care for.