Re: Sloppy china practices (example)



pbFJKD@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

http://www.users.on.net/~endsodds/smps.htm

"I opened up a whole bunch of SMPS (around 12) from different manufacturers
and carefully examined them. The worst power supply was a Chinese made brand
which advertised a 250 watt rating together with 5 volts at 25 amps on the
cover plate but on examination used 1N5404s in the 5 volt supply line (3 amps

I think you looked wrong. IIRC the 5400 series are 50Hz AC rectifiers
and therefore too slow to act as a rectifier diode in a switch mode
power supply.

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