I Built my own Power Supply (don't do it)
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Published 2024-07-27
Ever thought about trying to assemble your own power supply out of a few separate parts? You probably shouldn’t, but we definitely did. Is it a competent power supply? How does it compare to higher end power supplies like those you might find from Seasonic?
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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 geni.us/mj6pHk4
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:30 What is a Pico?
2:25 I'm not buying that
3:30 Let's see how this goes
4:25 What makes a good PSU?
6:00 Buy a fat PS3 on Marketplace
8:30 Powering it on
9:40 Labs Testing
11:05 Outro
All Comments (21)
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Therapist:how would you like to die? me:building my own psu carelessly
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I feel like handling a deenergized power supply someone else said they totally did right is like point a gun at yourself someone told you they definitely unloaded, and you weren't able to check.
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This video has a lot of warnings for a good reason. For the love of god people don’t mess around with power supplies if you don’t know what you’re doing. Be safe.
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The title of this video made the video before I even opened it.
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Who let LINUS cook?
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I mean, some build bombs, right?
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recently built a small home server with an itx motherboard featuring an embedded intel n100 cpu, and hooked it to a pico power module from Rgeek (aliexpress), I hooked it to a switching psu made for running LEDs; the whole thing uses under 65w with 2 hard drives on it. worked like magic, 3d printed a case for it, painted it black, put it in the same corner I have my router. It was really cheap and its pretty small. Do not use these things for a gaming pc dear god.
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I hate to say it but Seasonic isn't wrong.
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Bomb has been planted
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Now this is the unhinged content I look forward too
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I wanna see Medhi (elctroboom) create a power supply from scratch now LOL
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i love these electroboom guest episodes where he isnt even there
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Maybe LTT should have emphasised that opening a PSU can actually kill you. Especially if you accidentally discharge the big caps. They can hold a charge for a long time after unplugging. Weeks even.
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Linus saying: capacitors for smoothing. Linux showing: diodes
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Who let LINUS cook? 💖💖💖💖
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nuh-uh, can't stop me
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I got a park fire alert, Linus 😂
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linus took the seasonic sponsor personally
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You won't stop me. Even if it is dangerous, i will do it.
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Just go to your local computer recycling center and pick a power supply between $3 and $30. Got a cooler master 650w fully modular with 80plus gold for $30
