Sinrace Power Supply Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
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What true advantages you will have if you choose us?
We are a professional manufacturer of power supply with 16years' history already, and we are always with you for offering you answers on power supply questions and supplying you with enthusiastic services. The emphasis and the main responsibility for us is to meet our customers's needs unceasingly.We believe those customers are our partners who shall build long-time and reliable business relationship with us.
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| Safe PC power supply loading |
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PC power supplies are often ideal for other purposes but the required loads represent wasted power. So, it would be nice to be able to eliminate them. Unfortunately, it probably isn't easy to modify a PC power supply so less/no load is needed for regulation. However, it is worth testing a supply to see how low you can actually go on the loads - many WILL regulate the +5 with no load on the +12 but probably not the reverse. While 20 percent load is often recommended, 5 percent or less may work just fine. And, some don't need any additional loads on either output (they will probably include a minimal load resistor internally). CAUTION: Usually, a PC power supply will just shut down with too little load. However, some may be much more unhappy. Thus attempting to determine a safe minimum load does entail some risk of letting the smoke out. The reason that you need a load is that the PWM controller can't do down to really small duty cycles needed for low loading. The design would need to be changed and differs from unit to unit. |
