On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:59:09 -0500, Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>
>In , on 03/13/2005 
>   at 10:41 AM, "Keith Myers"  said:
>
>Keith
>
>>>     Also, the power supplies I need / want to test do not
>>>have any motherboard power leads on them.  All they have
>>>is 2 each 4-pin,  5, G, G, 12,  plugs.
>
>>Hi Don, OK then, why not just get some kitchen foil and tear some long
>>thin  strips from it and wrap around your probe tips to build up enough
>>diameter to  hold snugly in the molex female pins.  Yes, I was talking
>>about measuring the  voltages from the 4 pin Molex connectors that
>>typically provide power to  storage drives.  All they'll have in them is
>>+5v for the data circuits and +12v to  spin the motors. Plug one of your
>>two connectors into a drive to load the power  supply down and measure
>>the other one with the multimeter.  Hope I explained  clearly enough. 
>>Cheers.
>
>>Keith
>
>     Yes, that is clear enough.
>
>     But BUT BUT!!!!  Hey wait one minute!
>
>     The reason I am needing to go to all this trouble is that in the last
>3 months I have been trying to upgrade 3 SCSI drives to U160.  I have
>bought 12 drives.  I have destroyed 13 drives by plugging them into one of
>the power supplies.
>
>     SO!!! I an not wanting to plug a drive in to provide a load.
>
>     Next suggestion please.

Uh... use the Antec Power Supply Tester that started this whole thread
that you already said you own?

..it will allow you to turn on the power supply, and has test points so
you can read the 12V and 5V lines that would feed the hard drives for
the system...  if they're more than +- 10% off what they should be,
don't use that power supply!!!

I'm visualizing a house fly and a bug zapper for some reason...

Really, guys... stop and think for a second!

-Derek

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