[SOLVED] How bad is this "High Power" PSU (pics included)

jeremy0118

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Dear readers.

I have this High Power Element Bronze PSU new in the box and i was wondering wether this is an okay unit or an "avoid at all costs" unit.

All relevant info pics and some inside pics can be seen here, i dont know if this helps you as there is little info on this unit online, other than it being made by Sirtec. It does pack some weight, it does not feel like a cheap generic unit and it has a 80+ bronze rating. Thanks in advance!

View: https://imgur.com/596GMuW
 
Solution
This company can make good PSUs, but this isn't one of them. Very cheap looking PCB and you can tell from the coils that it's group-regulated. May be just fine in an office PC that's not running a GPU, but I wouldn't use it for anything but that.

This. This has to be a really old PSU. I can't see anyone making anything like this today.
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A high quality PSU should have a more professional PCB design, one or more daughter cards, solid capacitors, beautifully machined mosfet rads.
 
High power make a ton of units in varying quality.

It's safe to assume this unit is pretty poor quality looking at the pictures.

Few things that stand out
240v only.
85% efficient at 240v isn't bragging worthy imo.
300w on 12v rail. Effectively a 300w psu in 2021.
Group regulated, old design.
85c bulk cap.
Appears to be single layer pcb.
Pcb is dated 2013?
 
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