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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:42 pm

UberGerbil wrote:
So you're saying all those times as a kid I shuffled my stockinged feet on the carpet and got shocked, I was practicing a kind of homeopathy?

120V stings and makes you say bad words. 240V seriously gets your attention and the same viewpoint as after a weekend bender, i.e. "I'll never do that again".

Working in a live box is simple. Rubber pad to stand on and one hand behind your back at any time you "break the plane" of the panel rim with a finger or a tool you're holding. Rewired my whole house working in a live panel and never got jolted once (I did shut down the mains at the meter on the front porch for the initial panel replacement and mains hookup down in the cellar. I ain't that crazy, as the next upstream breaker is rated in thousands of amps). Took more jolts changing out bum outlets and switches while discovering the cross-connected nature of the wiring system left to me by the previous owners. Pull breaker, light goes out. Pull apart box, find live wire. That project was 10 years ago but I'll never forget it.
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:22 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
Good enough for me. Just ordered an S12II 620W (I figure for $12 it's good to be prepared for the future, plus my system is kinda beefy with a 3570K at 4.5GHz and a GTX 970). Thanks guys.

been running seasonic psus in my rigs for as far as i can remember. running 24/7 for the past decade and never had an issue.

if its not seasonic, im not buying. ;)

edit: currently running an x series 750watt
 
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:10 pm

morphine wrote:
UberGerbil wrote:
So you're saying all those times as a kid I shuffled my stockinged feet on the carpet and got shocked, I was practicing a kind of homeopathy?

Yes, and according to homeopathy, even those small amounts of current will give you immunity against larger ones :lol:


Sweet! i should be good for at least 1.21 jigawatts
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:47 pm

I wouldn't use hot glue, coils get hot, use epoxy since it hardens with heat.
 
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:52 pm

Occasionally I'll hear about how adding a UPS to the PC solved coil-whine noise in a computer (from the PSU, GPU, or mainboard) but that's far from a guaranteed solution. If you could "borrow" one from somewhere in the office to try out, however...

morphine wrote:
You need an erectrician for the best advice on this bit. But "not touching anything with your fingers" is usually a good rule of thumb.


Some erectrician's recommend Cialis, less finger work is generally required.
 
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:22 am

Captain Ned wrote:
(I did shut down the mains at the meter on the front porch for the initial panel replacement and mains hookup down in the cellar. I ain't that crazy, as the next upstream breaker is rated in thousands of amps)

How does one go about pulling the meter? Doesn't the power company get upset if you break their little lock? I'd love to replace the joke that is my main panel, but no way I'd go near those ~6 gauge wires carrying mains power to it when they're live.
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:37 am

SuperSpy wrote:
Captain Ned wrote:
(I did shut down the mains at the meter on the front porch for the initial panel replacement and mains hookup down in the cellar. I ain't that crazy, as the next upstream breaker is rated in thousands of amps)

How does one go about pulling the meter? Doesn't the power company get upset if you break their little lock? I'd love to replace the joke that is my main panel, but no way I'd go near those ~6 gauge wires carrying mains power to it when they're live.

There's a main breaker in the meter panel downstream of the meter. The panel I replaced was never designed to be a main panel and did not have a main breaker in it, which is why it was put in the meter panel. Code compliance was not high on the priority list of the people from whom we bought the house.
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:29 am

derFunkenstein wrote:
Good enough for me. Just ordered an S12II 620W (I figure for $12 it's good to be prepared for the future, plus my system is kinda beefy with a 3570K at 4.5GHz and a GTX 970). Thanks guys.


Good call!
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Thu May 14, 2015 1:18 am

morphine wrote:
UberGerbil wrote:
So you're saying all those times as a kid I shuffled my stockinged feet on the carpet and got shocked, I was practicing a kind of homeopathy?

Yes, and according to homeopathy, even those small amounts of current will give you immunity against larger ones :lol:

Not quite, with Homeopathy, in the chemical analog situation... they dilute solutions until its highly improbably that there is even one molecule or atom present, but their remains the homeopathic ghost of the molecule having been there. I'd suppose that for electricity it would need to be a discharge so small that one would have trouble, even with sensitive instruments, determining if a discharge even took place.
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Re: Any cure for a whining power supply?

Thu May 14, 2015 3:33 am

KingLear wrote:
I wouldn't use hot glue, coils get hot, use epoxy since it hardens with heat.

My personal choice for this sort of application isn't glue, but something like this. No equipment needed to use it and it's easy to apply with no high temperatures involved.
 
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