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Akasa PSU Dead.....

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Jay_2

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My 550W akasa power plus PSU has died!

It was given good reviews and its also made to be a server PSU but its lasted only 15 months,

I don't think that it was pushed too hard and it didn't actually die when under load!

My g/f turned the PC off and it never came back on. The green light on the mother board is lit but there is no power apart from that. I swapped it out for a spare Tagan PSU and the system boots up ok.

Why would this happen? (also the fuse had gone in the plug socket but the surge protector had not tripped)
 
What reviews...I don't remember seeing that one reviewed well.

And when you say the fuse went what exactly do you mean?
 
Ayone have a 720W Enermax Infinity EIN720AWT?

what do you think of them?

or the SilverStone SST-DA750 that has a single 60A 12v rail
 
Jay_oasis said:
My 550W akasa power plus PSU has died!

It was given good reviews and its also made to be a server PSU but its lasted only 15 months,

I don't think that it was pushed too hard and it didn't actually die when under load!
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So?

Nobody makes a "perfect product." Even the best made components have at least a 0.5% RMA rate.

You have to take into consideration that a component is only as good as the sum of it's parts. A PSU has a number of different parts from a number of different manufacturers inside of it. A cap manufacturer could have had a bad run on caps or a rectifier might have gotten screwed to a heatsink w/o enough thermal compoud underneath it. IMHO, it's a miracle the defect rate isn't a lot higher than it is given the margin of error.
 
Wow, back off, I am just saying that it died and did not die when under load (that I find odd)

lol
 
Jay_oasis said:
Wow, back off, I am just saying that it died and did not die when under load (that I find odd)

lol
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There was never any rule written in the industry that a power supply should only die under load either. Nothing odd about it at all.
 
whats up with you?

Can you not give advice in a constructive way?

You seem to be very defensive, I am not saying its your fault......
 
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