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Old March 28, 2012, 03:06 PM
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i have a ocz zx850w power supply, and i want to know what the capacitor is for that is on the pei connector?
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Old March 28, 2012, 03:12 PM
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over current protection iirc.
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Old March 28, 2012, 03:58 PM
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a filter or reserve for line voltage to smooth out AC~ line ripple
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Old March 28, 2012, 04:23 PM
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It's for smoothing out the DC to (in theory) prevent coil whine. Nothing to do with protections or AC. PSU's are for converting AC to DC, if it were outputing AC you'd have a dead system.
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Old March 28, 2012, 04:25 PM
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That would have been my guess as well, but damn.... that's quite the cludge.... are they all like that?
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would is hurt if i remove it
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Old March 28, 2012, 05:27 PM
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would is hurt if i remove it
what that ugly pimple lol yes its there for a reason

a filter or reserve for DC voltage

a cheap OCZ fix to poor engineering EDIT: ment FSP the maker, OCZ name just on it
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Old March 28, 2012, 05:33 PM
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put some heatshrink around it if you dont like the way it looks.
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Old March 28, 2012, 06:09 PM
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i was going to sleeve each wire, but i found that capacitor there, not sure what to do but sleeve it and shrink around one of the wires
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Old March 28, 2012, 06:10 PM
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sleeve it to the capacitor then heatshrink the rest.
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