First post, by LuckyPiquel
Hi everyone,
Long story short... recently I moved from US to Europe. I took with me one of my Socket 7 rigs, and while connecting it I forgot to switch PSU from 115 V to 230 V. You know the outcome... a lot of smoke. Thankfully, only the PSU is dead and the rest of the computer is working perfectly fine.
Since this PSU was new-old-stock Startech PS2POWER230, that I bought recently and run it for maybe a month, I've started thinking about repairing it. However, I know almost nothing about repairing PSUs, and little about the PSU internals. Nonetheless, I have opened the case and noticed that the damage can be seen only in terms of the bulk capacitors (they just blew up), that I have already desoldered. From what I can tell, the PSU looks as a pretty decent construction internally (at least when comparing to my other AT PSUs).
My questions to all PSU-experts on Vogons. What should I remember, and look for, before stating this repair? Is it even worth it to do so? Is it possible that only bulk caps were damaged, or other components are also likely to be destroyed but I simply cannot see this? What are your thoughts?
I am also attaching photos of the PSU internals, with already desoldered bulk caps that were destroyed.
Thank you for all the advices!