can you use female socket from psu?

[noobatcomputer]

hi i just want to ask if your psu have to socket one female and one male and we all know the regular power cord uses the male socket of psu as input, my question is can i use the female socket for input instead?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Not sure what you're saying, but the side of the power cord that fits into the PSU is the right one.

 

[blazorthon]

IIRC, a PSU with both sockets on the exterior is usually meant to use the second socket as an output, like to a monitor so it doesn't need to use a second plug in an outlet.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

IIRC, a PSU with both sockets on the exterior is usually meant to use the second socket as an output, like to a monitor so it doesn't need to use a second plug in an outlet.

I've seen some that have a male for 120V and a female socket on the PSU for 240V, rather than a switch with passive power factor correction (or none).

 

[noobatcomputer]

well yea i use the second socket (male) but it had some issue like when it get hit the psu turns off so my concern if i can use the top socket(female) as input instead

 

[turkey3_scratch]

What PSU do you have?

 

[noobatcomputer]

it was generic hehehe power logic

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Never heard of it. I wouldn't even use it - it's probably a hazard, possibly a fire hazard even. Can you post a picture of the receptacles in the back?

 

[noobatcomputer]

it was somewhat same as this one with 2 socket

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I'm not going to that suspicious site, so could you just copy the image location of it, put it in IMG tags, and post an image here? Sorry, I just like to be cautious of sites I visit.

 

[noobatcomputer]

here it is sorry i deleted the link too ,

 

[turkey3_scratch]

This is an extremely old design. Only 25 amps on the 12V rail gives you a rated 300W for the CPU, GPU, and some other stuff. The 5V and 3.3V rails are stuffed with amps. Realistically, you're looking at a 300W power supply. And the quality is probably very poor. I wouldn't use it if your system is anything above 300W.

What country are you in?

 

[noobatcomputer]

philippines it was just generic ones though im using different psu i was just curious if i can just use the female socket of it as input that's all

 

[turkey3_scratch]

It looks like you can. If both of those sockets comply with the Phillipines power cord, I would think you could, you'd just need a male to female power cord instead of a male to male. The 230V is inbetween both of those, so that should be 230V for both sockets.

Of course, spec pages would help, but when you have no-name PSUs you don't have any.

 

[noobatcomputer]

its not really i have female to male but i saw one in our office(converted only manually,lol) thank you i was so afraid it might explode well i checked the soldering there's a wire from female socket going to male socket and then from male socket to main board.

 

[blazorthon]

Only one wire? That might just be ground if there is only one wire. Where do the other two wires from the female socket go to (the hot and neutral)?