Greetings people of the world. I'm seeking advice on what to do next with my system.
Silly me plugged the psu power cable into the psu socket while the other end of the cable was already in a surge protector that was in the wall and on, which should be fine if i had my psu switch off, right? I unfortunately forgot to do so, psu switch was on and arcing occured in the psu plug (i think) When i slowly reconnected the cable as it requires a bit of force to get it in there i heard a buzzing/cracking noise that stopped once the cable was fully in the psu plug. During all of this, the system was off, not running. It was just the psu switch that was on.
Now the system works fine, what i'm worried about is what i've discovered when i decided to check on the cable and the psu plug - receptacle in the power cable had a tiny little burn mark only on the N side (cable wasn't hot or anything, no smoke, no burned plastics, just the tiny little black-ish mark in the receptacle) Same thing in the PSU plug on the same side. I happen to have some psu cables laying around so i switched the "burned" cable for one with nice clean receptacles (this time connected it properly with the psu switch off) and the system is working both idle & under load (it worked even with the first cable after the arcing) So now the issue is the burnt/deformed mark on one of the 3 pins that are in the PSU plug. It's barely noticeable, i had to look at it from close distance with a flashlight. Unfortunately i do not have a camera on me right now that could focus on such a little thing to show you guys, but i found a google pic of a psu plug and highlighted the "burnt/deformed" area, this is approx how big it is :
View: https://imgur.com/a/Oo6UBSB
The psu itself is the 850 watt version of this model : https://seasonic.com/prime-ultra-gold#
Both the PSU and the system it's powering are a week old, no issues. (9900k & 2080ti)
Do i keep the power supply or do i slap myself twice and buy a new one? what are the dangers of keeping it? Thank you in advance
Silly me plugged the psu power cable into the psu socket while the other end of the cable was already in a surge protector that was in the wall and on, which should be fine if i had my psu switch off, right? I unfortunately forgot to do so, psu switch was on and arcing occured in the psu plug (i think) When i slowly reconnected the cable as it requires a bit of force to get it in there i heard a buzzing/cracking noise that stopped once the cable was fully in the psu plug. During all of this, the system was off, not running. It was just the psu switch that was on.
Now the system works fine, what i'm worried about is what i've discovered when i decided to check on the cable and the psu plug - receptacle in the power cable had a tiny little burn mark only on the N side (cable wasn't hot or anything, no smoke, no burned plastics, just the tiny little black-ish mark in the receptacle) Same thing in the PSU plug on the same side. I happen to have some psu cables laying around so i switched the "burned" cable for one with nice clean receptacles (this time connected it properly with the psu switch off) and the system is working both idle & under load (it worked even with the first cable after the arcing) So now the issue is the burnt/deformed mark on one of the 3 pins that are in the PSU plug. It's barely noticeable, i had to look at it from close distance with a flashlight. Unfortunately i do not have a camera on me right now that could focus on such a little thing to show you guys, but i found a google pic of a psu plug and highlighted the "burnt/deformed" area, this is approx how big it is :
View: https://imgur.com/a/Oo6UBSB
The psu itself is the 850 watt version of this model : https://seasonic.com/prime-ultra-gold#
Both the PSU and the system it's powering are a week old, no issues. (9900k & 2080ti)
Do i keep the power supply or do i slap myself twice and buy a new one? what are the dangers of keeping it? Thank you in advance
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