Jump start a power supply

[Mushroom Prince]

Just a quick question that may or may not be worth writing a thread about,


: in a PC, how would one go about jump starting your own generic power supply ? So where you could get all the parts inside of your computer power except the motherboard. My friend says he is trying to get a water cooling system installed and he wants to check and make sure all the stuff is running before he puts the motherboard inside.

 

[burningrave101]

You can start the power supply up all by itself by just taking something like a paper clip and connecting the green wire (there is only one) to a black ground wire (any one will do).

 

[Mushroom Prince]

thanks

 

[Ice Czar]

you should also place a load on it
a HDD would be ideal

 

[burningrave101]

you should also place a load on it
a HDD would be ideal

Why do you need to place a load on it?

Is it hard on the PSU for it not to have some sort of load when it starts up?

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Quite hard, if you're just seeing if it will start you'll probably be fine for a little bit, but SMPS sometimes will even burn up from running without load (although good PSUs will shut themselves off before that happens)